Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Ginkasa
Let's try not to turn this into a religious debate. We've had too much of those in the past few months. Besides, its off topic anyway.
Anyway...
About in a war you have to use nukes and A-bombs, etc. to show the other country that they shouldn't "F" with us is just plain wrong. All that is is bullying only to an extent where millions of people would be killed.
War is not always just countries at each other's throats wanting to wipe each other out. This war in particular was not a war with Iraq as a whole but with Saddam's regime. Nuking the place not only would have made the war much larger than it would have to be (it would almost certainly draw other countries into the mix) but it would have also killed countless numbers of the people we were trying to save.
Thinking that war is just a school yard fight where the sole goal is to hurt the other guy as much as possible in any way possible is naive. Its people thinking things like that that will lead to nuclear war and holocaust.
*shrugs and walks away*
|
Ginkasa...Ginkasa....
Im not getting into this argument again, either. I had it a while back in the World Civ. forum. But it really gets under my skin...people who believe dropping the bombs in WWII was a bad idea, and think that it was "immoral" and "monstourous" or "unethical". It saved alot of peoples lives...and We would do it again if we had too.
In todays age, though, we dont go around droping Nukes and A-bombs on everyone that challenges us for a few reasons...:
1. In todays age, most countries have Nukes, unlike when the first A-bomb was dropped. So if we nuked some place right now, we would be hit with some pretty bad retaliation. Becuase they could drop a Nuke right back on us.
2. We wanted to keep Iraq on the map. We had interest to rebuild it. You dont go around dropping nukes in order to kill one man. (Saddam)
I never said that we should have dropped a Nuke on Iraq...that really would have been stupid. What I was trying to say is that if your in an all out war with an entire nation of enemies that will not give up, (Such as the Japs in WWII), then using the most brutal force possible is neccessary.
I was not saying you drop bombs on a country who metaphorically "flips you off."...