In a message dated 11/22/01 2:16:53 AM, ml@gondwanaland.com writes:
>On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 09:10:40AM -0800, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
>> Sure, we've done some wrong things, but nothing even
>> remotely close to unthinkable horrors of Pearl Harbor or WTC.
>
>I don't know, I've thought about Pearl Harbor, WTC and far more
>horrific events a fair bit.
>
>The US carried out terrorist acts against American Indians for
>well over a century. I'm sure that a number of these, considered
>individually, were remotely close to WTC, perhaps even worse.
You needn't stretch to find worse US parallels. Dresden, Hiroshima,
and Nagasaki were all straight-up terrorist acts - trying to force
action onto governments/societies by killing civilians in areas of
minimal military importance.
(What the US did to the Amerinds was horrible and frequently
genocidal. I consider it a stretch because it was so long ago,
and because few Americans would attempt to justify it today.)
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