Quote Originally Posted by DDT
Quote Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie
Then a stray German bomber accidently drops bombs on London. England revenges themselves by bombing Berlin. After that Hitler got so vexed he decided to bomb the civilian population of England,
Really? I had not heard this.
WWII has been my hobby BTW, Hitler even said that he was sad that Britian declared war on Germany and tried many times to make peace with them, because he saw them as brothers (as opposite to the Jews, Russians, etc.). I suggest "the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William L. Shirer. A great book!

Quote Originally Posted by DDT
But my point is the righteous party can not be a terrorists. In all out world war there are no innocent civillians. Civillians supply their soldiers. The enemy was fighting for their very existence to the last man. Just as our countries were fighting for ours. This was evident in Japan especially. We had to destroy them utterly to save our own.
And who decides who is righteous? The victor. All combatants in WWII thought themselves as "righteous". Sorry for the klishe, but people don't kill people, guns do. If you take out the war industry of Japan, you win the war. In your thinking, one should be killing, say, iraqi citizens, so that the insurgency would end. Burn down villages that hide terrorists, right?

Another curious fact: When Germany fell, they REDOUBLED their efforts to build the bomb, because they were afraid the war would end before they were finished.

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It seems that your point really is that ALL war is immoral. I disagree.
I also disagree. This is not point at all. I am making a simple statement: the specific event of the atom bombs dropped on Japan is a terrorist act. I am not denouncing war in general at all!

Let me put it in another way, so you might be more agreable. It was a NECESSARY terrorist act.

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I am sitting next to someone, as I type this that lived through WWII. I am not able to tell you on this forum, what she thinks of the idea of the bombing of Japan as being terrorism.
I am sorry, but specifically targeting civilians to promote your military/political/religious agenda is terrorism. Life is hard! Instead of fighting the notion, agree that sometimes terrorism is necessary. It is simply a tactic.