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Re: I don't think you remember...
Old 09-11-2003, 08:29 PM   #29
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Originally Posted by Dylflon
Yea. Even though I'm Canadian I'll still be watching the 9/11 special.

My friend said something interesting today.

"It's important to remember 9/11 but it's also important to forget your mistakes like Vietnam and Hiroshima. (Patriotism)"

He doesn't particularily like Americans.

Me on the other hand; I'm indifferent. Naw. I ahve lots of American friends.
I don't think Hiroshima was a mistake, nor was Nagasaki. While I feel for the families and people of Japan and respect their culture very much, but their leaders brought this upon themselves. They would rather see their people die than give up. The perfect example of this is that it took TWO nukes to make them give up. Imagine what a direct assault on Japan would have been like... the amount of people that would have died on both sides would have dwarfed that of the body count of both nukes.

As foir Vietnam, I don't know whether it was a good idea or not. I surely was not executed as it should have been. But the truth is that expantionist communism was spreading like wildfire all over Asia and parts of Europe until the Vietnam War, and quickly receeded after the conflict ended.
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