Bahu Virupaksha

Reply to The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Politics JoeUser Forums

The Japanese did not quite understand the term "Unconditional Surrender". Maybe it was the difficulty of trasnlatingb English inot Japanese or else they did not think it proper that their Emperor should be made in any way responsible for the outcome. They only wanted time to mull over the point relating to the status of the Emperor. I think the USA dropped the bomb on Japan without a second thought probably due to the anti orientalist sentiment in USA

Reply to Don't forget Hiroshima in International JoeUser Forums

All the crimes that the Japanese Army perpetrated in Shanghai does not justify the Atmoic Bombing of civillian non combatants.

Reply to The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Politics JoeUser Forums

You should be able to tell by glancing over the list of his articles that an even-handed discourse on the wrongs of the world isn't a capability he has. I not not a rabid leftwinger. In fact I detest Communism and I will condemn with equal vehemence the crimes of Stalin and Mao. In fact I have mntioned

Reply to The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Politics JoeUser Forums

We must remember that Eienstien, Oppenheimer and a host of other scientsts justified the Manhattan Project by drawing attwntion to the nuclear program of Germany. Japan did not have a nucvlear program and the ImperialJapasene Army did a whole host of horrible things like the Rape of Sanghai and the killings in the so-called co-presperity sphere. However, the bomb was not used against the White nation against which the justificaTION WAS DRAWN AND USED

Reply to PETA: Sinking to New lows in Current Events JoeUser Forums

tHROUGHOUT HUMAN HISTORY, ANIMALS HAVE ENDURED ENORMOUS SUFFERING AS WAR ANIMALS, FARM ANIMANLS AND RESEARCH PURPOSES. THEY DO NOT HAVE THE ABILITY TO SPEAK AND EXPRESS THEIR SUFFERING. JUST IMAGINE THE SUFFERING CAUSED BY A MINK COAT OR THE PERFUME ONE USES. FOR A SINGLE MINK CAOT 9 animals a

Reply to The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Politics JoeUser Forums

suppose America and China should simply have accepted being slaughtered by the Japanese in order to remain on the good side here Now you are right the Japanese War Crimes Tribunal handed out sentences of death to the entire political and military establishemnt for war crimes. The Atomic Bombling did not

Reply to The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Politics JoeUser Forums

Bahu pretends to objectively spotlight history from an anti-US pulpit, it's a joke.Sure, the Soviets had a lot to do with our decision. So did the tens of thousands of U Bakerstreet is welocome to his opinion:but my purpose was more serious. To reduce a serious discussion on the morality and tactical u

The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Politics JoeUser Forums

The great historian E J Hobsbawm has rightly caalled the twentieth century an "age of extremes". The German Holocaust during the course of the World War and the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will for ever be seared in the momory of humankind as the most horrendous instances of mans' inhumanity ro fellow human beings. The moral evivalence between the two can

Da Vinci Code and the its Fiction in Writing JoeUser Forums

Let me begin by saying the I enjoyed Da Vinci Code just as I enjoyed the Rule of Four. Both are immensely readable and written in a racy style that makes one turn the page to find out what happens next. While the Rule of Four does not take great liberty with history, it has not created a major stir as has Da Vinci Code. It is unfortunate that many take the version o

Reply to London Terrorists and the Labor under Tony Blair in Politics JoeUser Forums

How can you expect someone to stop when a group of men dressed in plain clothes runs after an individual and orders him/her to stop. The fact is that the London Police are responsible for the death of Charles Menenses and they reacted with deadly force only becazuse of racial profiling. This only goes

Reply to Racial Profiling in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

The problem with Racial Profiling that you advocate so avidly is not that it offends ones sense of human worth, we will let thast pass. The fact is Profiling just does not help in prevednting Terrorism and it ends up making more people angry as hell. So the cure is worse than the disease and therefore RP has to be abandoned.

Reply to London Terrorists and the Labor under Tony Blair in Politics JoeUser Forums

The war in Iraq and the large scale killing that is going on there, is making the youth emphasise the Islamic part of their identity."This is false and misleading. I think it is more the fact that a) there are virtually no British born Imans meaning extremists from abroad have a monopoly on shaping the Muslim youth and b) the Bri

Reply to More server pain in Blogging JoeUser Forums

It is simply great to have JU back on line. Life without JU is rather tepid and I am sure happy the the glitches have been fixed. GREAT JOB.

Reply to The Terrorist Attacks in London in Politics JoeUser Forums

After this post was put up the Royal Socity of International Affairs, the respected think tank Chatam House came up with a report ssaying the same thing"the Iraq factor". Terrorism cannot be defeated militarily, it can be beaten only when the political conditions that give rise to it are met squarely and fairly.

Reply to London Terrorists and the Labor under Tony Blair in Politics JoeUser Forums

guess I need to remind you that "back then" they were not targeting innocent women and children either.Bonus Rating: Trolling Insightful The attack on women and children have been part of the war strategy of all the parties in conflict. In the attak on Fallujah ten of children perished and all one

Reply to London Terrorists and the Labor under Tony Blair in Politics JoeUser Forums

yes, yet another disgusting attempt to somehow rationalize and justify the actions of terrorists killing innocent people.Bonus Rating: Trolling Insightful These leftist do wh

London Terrorists and the Labor under Tony Blair in Politics JoeUser Forums

The London Metropolitan Police and Scotland Yard need to be congratulated for the quick detection of the identities of the 4 youth who pertetrated the horricfic act on 7/7/05. It took the US Administration a good two weeks before the names of the 21 9/11 killers were made public. The CCTV images caught pictures of the 4 British citizens entering King's Cross station a

Reply to Strange Things Happening On JU in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Yes, I too have noticed it. I think it is an error in the program and it can be rectified.

Reply to Government employees. in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

I think you have really talked about the complexities of post modern existence. Everything one does has to be recorxded and our only identity is a piece of paper with a number on it. Orwell called it 1984.

Reply to The Terrorist Attacks in London in Politics JoeUser Forums

can accept NO PROVOCATION for such an action, because to do so then lends to the idea that it had been provoked. excuse is justified for the horrors these animals perpetrate.Bonus

The Terrorist Attacks in London in Politics JoeUser Forums

The bomb attaks in London took place when Londoners were going about their normal work. The tube trains were probably targetted because of their symbolic value and also provided an easy soft target. This was an attack on civillian non combatants and there fore needs to be condemned in the strongest possible terms. This kind of terrorist attackis not onlo bad for Islam

Reply to The Situation In Afghanistan in Politics JoeUser Forums

everything is a failure. You only "research" the things you somehow try to blame Bush for, and totally ignore everything else. Bush policy like Iraq, The deficit, Trade deficit,

Reply to The Situation In Afghanistan in Politics JoeUser Forums

I've often wondered about the opium/heroin issue in Afghanistan. On one hand, it's in our (America's) interest to decimate the drug cultivation business in Afghanistan. On the ot

The Situation In Afghanistan in Politics JoeUser Forums

The downing of the Chinook chopper a few days back came as a surprise because the war in Afghanistan is really a forgotten war with the World's attention centered on Iraq .Reality has a way of forcing itself and the incident last week did just that. The fact is that American strategy is too closely tied to the survival of the Ahmed Karzai regime and it is well known t

Reply to Dissent needs to have some limits on it... in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

The press has also seemed to take sides on the war. They do everything in their considerable power to make the U.S. troops look like murderous barbarians. At the same time, we The perception of war can be different across the world. In fact the most difficult question is to define Bellum Justum or just