Today in History August 15
Created on: August 15th, 2006
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If you examine the basic criteria of what classifies terrorism, you’ll discover that the nuclear bombardment of Japan matches said criteria almost without exception. The eradication of civilian populations or installations of little to no military significance, the intention of inflicting fear upon a given enemy, etc. But this is hardly a suitable forum for intelligent debate, so I’m making this my final word on the matter...
5 for history and intelligent conversation(mostly). zer0hue, notice that the islamic terrorists we fight against are not the military force of any particular country, don't wear military uniforms, employ guerilla warefare tactics, will bomb random people, will bomb people out of intolerence for others religion, and will strap bombs onto children. When we nuked Japan, we killed the enemy.
maybe it was "terrorism", but it was necessary to end the war. And it actually did make the world a better place (in the long run) for both the japanese and the americans, unlike islamic terrorism which seeks to make the world united under an oppressive and backwards religious extremism. War is ugly, on that I think we can all agree.
Most definitions of terrorism don't allow for the actions of a government's military to be called terrorism. You can call them war crimes, but not terrorism. Also, many of the "terrorists" in Iraq are misnamed because attacks on United States forces or Iraqi forces are not acts of terrorism. Obviously this doesn't apply to those who attack Iraqi civilians, but I get quite annoyed at our military when it refers to all enemies in Iraq as terrorists. The word is thrown around quite liberally.
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