rhinohelix
Dental Dammer
- 3,037
- 5,004
Now, don't take this in the wrong spirit but any time Tanoomba is spritzing over your posts, its time to change. I am only going to take the time to point out two of the many things wrong with your list.
-The nuclear weapons deployed against Japan saved millions of lives. That isn't conjecture, its absolute fact. That they are nuclear weapons doesn't put them into some special category. As many or more people died in the firebombings of Tokyo and Dresden than at Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Without the show of force that those bombings constituted, though, the U.S. would have had to invade Japan. Based upon previous invasions, they estimate that the U.S. would have suffered more than a million casualties, with 5 to 10 million Japanese casualties. A-bombs shortened the war, saved lives, preventing more states and people falling under Soviet oppression, and have never been used again.
-The U.S. Civil War was particularly bloody but as mentioned, not even close to the worst civil war. It was so bloody in part because while technology had advanced considerably, the tactics used were still that of the Napoleonic era. As a result, thousands died. It was in many ways one of the first wars of the "modern" era and is considered to be a preview of the First World War. That it was mostly fought over slavery in one form or the other is true but abolition of slavery by other European powers wasn't too much sooner, as evidenced by the British eliminating slavery as late as 1833, although they did suspend the slave trade, particularly the African slave trade in 1808. That Americans felt so strongly over the issue as to spend hundreds of thousands of lives to rid our country of it has to be an unadulterated good.
You remain such a giant douche that women walking by computers with this webpage up have cleaner vaginas merely by proximity to your posting. You are St. Douche.
