WBC/Umpire Apology

[jumpmaster]

Originally posted by btman

War, even when justifed, is a terrible thing. I spoke to the apparent revelling in death,which only an idiot would do regardless of the "side" taken. [/B]

We cornered the japenese into WW2, pearl Harbor was defensive. Then we mass slaughterd civilians inside Japan's mainland to send a message to the Russions, had nothing to do with the Japs, they had offered surrender months before, documented, released and unclasified and not up to firther discussion, we sent them the ultimatum to get out of Indochina. They couldn't we knew they couldn't so war was on.

Why? Becus we wanted Indochina for our own, oil pipleines, the same reasons the French raped it for five decades.

Kids die for business reasons not for glory and this country is nothing more than one, huge business.

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To paraphrase one of America's great writers, "we sleep peacefully at night because rough men stand ready to do an ugly business"

...you are welcome.

War is neither simple or appealing. The reasons are complex, intertwined and the act of war is always ugly. Yet it is a FACT of the human life. Revisionist history through the eyes of the 21st century will only cloud the lessons that our children, both Japanese and American, should learn.

But this is an umpire forum and not a philosophy of war forum...I digress.