Re: If we do get Afghanistan, what shall we do with it?

From: Dwayne (ddraig@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Nov 26 2001 - 05:38:35 MST


(this bounced due to my csoft address not being subbed, so here it is
again)
(I just referred to this post in an earlier one. Ooops)

Dwayne

> >
> > Or perhaps it comes down to this:
> > Dropping "the bomb" did end the war, didn't it?
>
>
> and if you are still reading me:
>
> "It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at
> Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in
> our war against Japan. The Japanese were almost defeated
> and ready to surrender...in being the first to use it,
> we...adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians
> of the Dark Ages."
>
> ---Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy,
> Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during World War II
>
>
> I could go on, but here's an appeal to authority if I ever saw one.
>
> Dwayne



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