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Skriven 2005-08-11 23:37:00 av THURSTON ACKERMAN (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JOHN HULL
Ärende: atomic bomb question
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JH>Ed Hulett -> VERN HUMPHREY wrote:
JH> EH> VERN HUMPHREY -> ED HULETT wrote:
JH> VH>>>> During the Rape of Nanking, two Japanese officers had a
JH> EH> competition to
JH> VH>>>> see who could behead the most people.  That competition was
JH> EH> reported in
JH> VH>>>> the newspaper, Ahasi Shinbun, in great detail and with obvious
JH> EH> approval
JH> VH>>>> and relish.

JH> EH>>> All officers carried samurai swords and would use them mostly for
JH> EH> such
JH> EH>>> practices. The imperial army leadership attempted to bring back
JH> EH> the samurai
JH> EH>>> traditions. They failed except for bringing back the evil side of
JH> EH> samurai.

JH> VH>> They certainly did that -- "Life's Picture History of WWII" had some
JH> VH>> hair-raising pictures.

JH> EH> Yes, it did. I looked through it and was moved to near tears. How man
JH> EH> can be so savage against man is a question for the ages.

JH> VH>>>> We have made a great mistake in shielding the American people
JH> EH> from evil
JH> VH>>>> As a result, it makes our actions in self-defense appear wrong in
JH> EH> the
JH> VH>>>> eyes of thos who really don't like this country.

JH> EH>>> What's surprising is how many of those who don't like this country
JH> EH> are actua
JH> EH>>> citizens of this country.

JH> VH>> And what's even more surprising, some of them came here voluntarily,
JH> VH>> like George Soros.

JH> EH> Yes, and he insists on staying. He is trying to change America to his
JH> EH> liking instead of go someplace more to his liking. This is my native
JH> EH> homeland, I don't like foreigners coming here trying to change it from
JH> EH> the land I love to something out of their imagination.

JH> VH>>>> It continues today. I think if we had run the whole bloody tapes
JH> EH> of the
JH> VH>>>> executions committed by Al Qaeda and sent to Al Jazera, and run
JH> EH> them as
JH> VH>>>> often as we ran stories of Abu Graib and Camp Delta, the American
JH> EH> peopl
JH> VH>>>> would have a different outlook on the present war.

JH> EH>>> I'm sure they would. Unfortunately, the media in this country are
JH> EH> more apt t
JH> EH>>> report on stories that put this country in a negative light than
JH> EH> to report o
JH> EH>>> the evils of the opposition. It's as if they have a terribly
JH> EH> quilty conscien
JH> EH>>> and can't bring themselves to realize that we don't deserve the
JH> EH> evils visite
JH> EH>>> on us.

JH> VH>> Even those who try to be fair don't show such pictures.  Too
JH> EH> squeamish.

JH> EH> Exactly, yet many of them will show pictures that put our troops in a
JH> EH> bad light.

JH>Have you seen the new show called "Over There" that takes place in Iraq - so
JH>of like a modern day "Combat."  All summer they were pumping this thing up,
JH>hyping the hell out of it.  The fact that the media was raving about it
JH>immediately made me suspicious.  Then I watched the first episode.  It is we
JH>done from a technical and production standpoint, with the requisite crop of
JH>fresh young stars, etc.  But to my mind, it is nothing but a subtle attack o
JH>the administration, the military, the troops, and those who support them.  I
JH>have not watched it since.

This is makeing me nervous; we are in agreement again already. The
wars I remember were much messier (and the messes much worser 8-(.

Stay young, OldAck.

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