[MD] Atomic Bomb

[Platt Holden]

> [amirman]
> 
> I'm still waiting to hear if you define the
> > dropping of the A-bombs on Japan as a terrorist act.
> 
> 
> [Platt]
> No. It saved millions of lives by shortening the war. 
> 
> [amirman]
> It's hard to argue with this kind of mindset. What
> kinds of lives did the A-bomb save? It destroyed
> infrastructure and killed innocent civilians
> (children, disabled people, non-combatants, women,
> elderly) so that fewer of your soldiers would die??

You don't get it. By shortening the war, lives on both sides, civilian 
and military, were saved. War kills people. Ending the war stops the 
killing. 

> Don't you quite see that's exactly what any terrorist
> could argue? Create terror in society by killing the
> innocents and hopefully that'll prevent a bigger war.

Terrorists are trying to prevent a bigger war? Nonsense. They either 
want to attain a political end or, in the case of radical Islam, kill 
all infidels.  

Confounded,
Platt