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We often hear support for the use of nuclear weapons against Japan in WWII. The USA had been attacked by Japan, and the quickest way to end the war and save US soldiers lives was to use nuclear weapons to force a quick surrender. <BR>
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But the ethical reasoning in the War on Terror pleads that the USA is morally superior to the "terrorists" in Iraq because we do not indiscriminately target civilians. Then was not our use of nuclear weapons against Japan an act of "terrorism?" <BR>
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How is the targeting of civilians in Iraq by "terrorists," to fight the US occupation of a country that we bombed and invaded with no solid evidence that Iraq had attacked the USA, morally different from the targeting of tens of thousands of innocent civilians the US killed in the nuclear bombings in Japan in WWII?<BR>
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Bishop: Bombing Hiroshima, Nagasaki Same As Terrorism<BR>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT></B>POSTED: 8:25 pm PDT August 3, 2005<BR>
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<B>WASHINGTON -- </B>The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said, that like terrorism today, the atomic bombs that the United States dropped on Japan to end World War II were unjustifiable because they failed to "discriminate between noncombatants and combatants." <BR>
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Bishop William Skylstad wrote a letter to the head of Japan's Catholic Bishops Conference in advance of Saturday's 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. That atomic bomb and a second one that was dropped on Nagasaki three days later killed more than 130,000 people.<BR>
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<A HREF="http://www.kirotv.com/news/4807499/detail.html">http://www.kirotv.com/news/4807499/detail.html</A><BR>
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Terrorism and nuclear weapons “fail to discriminate between combatants and noncombatants,” wrote Bishop William S. Skylstad of Spokane, Wash., in a letter to Bishop Augustinus Jun-ichi Nomura of Nagoya, Japan, who is president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Japan. <BR>
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<A HREF="http://www.baltcatholicreview.org/story2.asp">http://www.baltcatholicreview.org/story2.asp</A><BR>
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Vision2020 Post by Ted Moffett<BR>
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