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tooth
Mountain climber
B.C.
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 11, 2007 - 02:42pm PT
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Yup.
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
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Dec 11, 2007 - 02:44pm PT
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Dropping the Atomic Bomb saved about 1 million US lives.
That is a fact.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Dec 11, 2007 - 02:45pm PT
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War is never the answer...give peace a chance, warmonger.
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WoodySt
Trad climber
Riverside
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Dec 11, 2007 - 02:49pm PT
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If the French and British had initiated a preemptive war against Germany in thirty five or six, over fifty million plus lives would have been saved.
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WoodySt
Trad climber
Riverside
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Dec 11, 2007 - 02:51pm PT
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So much for our Revolution, the Civil War, WWII etc.
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John Moosie
climber
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Dec 11, 2007 - 03:05pm PT
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There were other things that could have been done to stop WW2. Like not taking vengeance on Germany after WW1. It was the worlds vengeance that led to the people of Germany being in such a state that they were susceptible to a man like Hitler. If we had exacted vengeance on Japan after WW2 we would most likely be facing a Japanese Hitler right now. Instead, wiser minds prevailed and we forgave. Now they are our allies and we will never again have to fear Japan.
How many cycles of vengeance do you need to see before you realize this? Just look at the middle east, where vengeance is glorified.
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tooth
Mountain climber
B.C.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 11, 2007 - 03:07pm PT
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Forgot Vietnam and Korea, and O peration I raqi L iberation, didn't you?
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Chaz
Trad climber
So. Cal.
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Dec 11, 2007 - 03:11pm PT
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"vengeance on Germany after WW1" caused the Japs to attack Pearl Harbor?
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tooth
Mountain climber
B.C.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 11, 2007 - 03:13pm PT
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Chaz, WWII didn't start with Pearl Harbor. That is what changed Americans minds and allowed the US to enter the war, before that WWII was happening, but the US wasn't involved.
From wikipedia
The intent of the strike was to protect Imperial Japan's advance into Malaya and the Dutch East Indies – for their natural resources such as oil and rubber – by neutralizing the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Both the U.S. and Japan had long-standing contingency plans for war in the Pacific, continuously updated as tension between the two countries steadily increased during the 1930s. Japan's expansion into Manchuria and French Indochina were greeted with steadily increasing levels of embargoes and sanctions by the United States and others. In 1940, under the Export Control Act, the U.S. halted shipments of airplanes, parts, machine tools, and aviation gas, which Japan saw as an unfriendly act
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