[Vision2020] Saundra tries to mislead matt with phoney sweetness

[Tony]

Matt, these folks are desperately trying to shake your good instincts. 
Saundra insists that we used the bomb against noncombatants.  The crucial 
distinction she is either unable to grasp, or unwilling to acknowledge, is 
that these civilian casualties were NOT targeted!  They were collateral 
damage in an era of imprecise warfare.  Japan's INDUSTRIAL CENTERS were 
targeted.  Her comparison of our actions then to the bombing of the trade 
centers, a target with NO MILITARY APPLICATION, is the genuine obscenity 
here, and I submit she should hang her head in shame for such an inane and 
shameful statement.

She continues that we were "itching" to blow these civilians to bits just to 
strut our stuff.  I assume that she will hang her head and slink off the 
next time she passes a veteran such as yourself, who she has so cavalierly 
disdained as a callous killer.

This pinhead then goes on to state, with breathtaking arrogance, that we 
interned Japanese Americans out of racism rather than a legitimate concern 
for national security!

Make no mistake Matt, these libs have NO RESPECT for you.  They view you as 
an ignorant dupe to be conned.  And they owe you, as a vet, an apology.

But don't hold your breath.

>From a sincere admirer,  -T----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Saundra Lund" <sslund at adelphia.net>
To: "'Matt Decker'" <mattd2107 at hotmail.com>; <ophite at gmail.com>
Cc: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 7:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Tony Simpsom Shills for Terrorists Yet Again!


> Hi Again Matt & Andreas,
>
> I appreciate the discussion . . . and I think you two have done a good job
> of illustrating why the US decision to drop nuclear bombs on Japan is 
> still
> hotly -- and validly -- debated.  I certainly wasn't alive back then, and
> I'm no historian, but I have read quite a bit about it because I think our
> use of atomic bombs against noncombatants was flatly immoral and 
> unethical,
> just as I think the attacks on the World Trade Center were.
>
> Not surprisingly, I think Andreas' assessment of a broken Japan at the 
> time
> of the bombings is more accurate.
>
> I would like to think, Matt, that those responsible for making the 
> decisions
> had only sound reasons for their decision in spite of the fact that I
> disagree with the decision.  However, for me, several significant facts
> weigh against that conclusion.  I'll mention only two of them.
>
> First of all, my reading of history convinces me we had this new toy we 
> were
> just *itching* to use.  The competition, the expectations, the message to 
> be
> sent to the rest of the world . . . all of that simply cannot be forgotten
> or overlooked, IMHO, in the analysis of the US decision to use nuclear
> weapons against noncombatants.
>
> Second, I think it incredibly . . . naïve to not look at the *all* the
> socio-political factors in play at the time.  Anti-Japanese sentiment was
> rampant in the US -- don't forget we had already allowed the rights and
> lives of tens of thousands of (Japanese) citizens to trampled due to 
> simple
> racism of the kind we unfortunately witnessed from Tony Simpson over the
> weekend.
>
> After all, it's a lot easier to rationalize the unleashing of nuclear h*ll
> on innocent men, women, and children when you believe they're just a 
> little
> less than human, and the timing of having an easily visually identifiable
> enemy at the time that we had a new "toy" the boys wanted to play with was
> incredibly convenient.
>
>
> JMHO,
> Saundra Lund
> Moscow, ID
>
> The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
> nothing.
> - Edmund Burke
>
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