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Originally Posted by romansh  Quote:
Originally Posted by duck What shame should America have over any of those things you listed? There is none in my mind. | duck
Firstly ... I did not mention America .... I specifically used the word 'we'.
Even Latvians contributed to the gulags and the death camps.
But explain to me the difference between Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Twin Towers in terms of suffering of civilians. .... The word I used was 'remember'. |
Sorry for not picking up on the liguistic nuance using the global "we". I get what you are saying.
I would prefer to compare WTC to Pearl Harbor. The comparison works better for analysis.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are unfortunate casualties of unfettered war. We developed a better bomb to end the war. We used it. Since too many of my family was serving in the Pacific Theater during that war, I refuse to condemn the use of atomic weapons to end that war.