Re: The Effects of a Global Thermonuclear War in 1988 (Re: NuclearWar, 1980's)

"Dave J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Robert J. Kolker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Yang Li wrote:
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> > > Do you launch anther strike at Soviet cities and population at this
> > > time? Is it morally acceptable to kill innocent civilians and destroy
> > > their society because your own has been condemned?  Justify.
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> > Because Revenge is Sweet. Didn't you know that. Don't get mad. Get even.
> > The Main Thing is never to be the sucker or boob that is left holding
> > the bag. Better everyone should die, than that.
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> or you can say it in one of those well-modulated professional soldier
voices
> like in the Clancy movies "we need to eliminate their centers of
production,
> and their ability to continue to make war". We already proved we'd do it
at
> Dresden and Tokyo.

Dresden had nothing to do with war production and given that the war ended a
few weeks later it's destruction had little effect on "ability to continue".
It was either an experiment or a warning to the red army, that's all.
Unnecessary killings of civilians are war crimes, that raid was just the
most obvious.

Z