02-21-2003, 10:32 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-21-2003, 11:19 AM by Chaerophon.)
Quote:extermination of a people? Not since the 19th century
Well, not necessarily an ENTIRE people...
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Tokyo, DRESDEN
That's not a comment on current policy, (nor on just Americans, I must admit), just a sad reminder of past "glories".
Recently I've been looking deeper into what went on in Europe and it seems that the more details of the Second World War I unearth, the more I wish that I had been left with my former conceptions. The men who fought and died still command as much of my respect as before, but some of the atrocities... I had always believed in our complete moral superiority in that conflict. Some of the things that were done in the name of 'justice' or 'tactics' were unbelievable. The calculated destruction of Dresden so as to absolutely maximise the loss of civilian life is merely one example.
But whate'er I be,
Nor I, nor any man that is,
With nothing shall be pleased till he be eased
With being nothing.
William Shakespeare - Richard II
Nor I, nor any man that is,
With nothing shall be pleased till he be eased
With being nothing.
William Shakespeare - Richard II