Fred White wrote:
>Does Tony feel the same about the residents of Hiroshima & Nagasaki??
>
>More than 60K innocent civilians.

Good point.  Of course more "innocent civilians" were killed in the
firebombing of Tokyo and Dresden.  There seems to be a prevailing sentiment
that people who were killed with nuclear weapons are more dead than those
who were killed with "conventional" weapons, or that their killing is
intrinsically more immoral than other deaths.  The real question, in my
opinion, is not whether using the fission bombs was appropriate, but whether
bombing civilian population centers was appropriate.  All sides did it in
WW-II, but that doesn't make it right.

I bring this up not because I disagree with your premise about bombing
civilians.  It just seems to me that you are far more eager to find fault
with the USA than just about any other entity on the planet.  Do you really
hate your country so much?  Have you considered living elsewhere?  Regarding
your comments about snubbing the American flag, I would like to point out
the obvious fact that we don't adopt a new flag each election year.  The
flag is not a symbol of a specific administration, it is the symbol of a
nation.  Yes, our political leaders have made some bad decisions in the
past, and will continue to.  Some of those bad decisions were undoubtedly
made for reasons many of us would disagree with, and some were made with the
best of motives in mind.  If you expect perfection from your government, and
hate your homeland when you don't get it, you are doomed to a life of
bitterness.

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