gjk@talcott.UUCP (John) (10/11/85)
In article <477@enmasse.UUCP>, mroddy@enmasse.UUCP (Mark Roddy) writes: > (Also Hiroshima, Dresden, the bombing of London > etc. were all terrorism. The car bombing of the U.S. marine base in > Lebanon was a military action, the Israeli bombing of Beirut was terrorism.) Here in parentheses we have a very remarkable comment. The examples of Schrechtlichkeit from World War II that are most familiar to Mark Roddy are Hiroshima, Dresden, and the bombing of London. Two Allied operations and one attack on the Allies. Well, we sure are forgetting history quickly. Sure, those events were terrible, controversial, and perhaps morally reprehensible (although there is still much discussion on this last point). But it is all penny ante stuff compared to the Eastern Front and the Japanese invasion of China. We have, for example: The destruction of Stalingrad The Leningrad famine The death camps The destruction of Warsaw The destruction of Warsaw, the sequel The massacre at Nanking Japanese concentration camps etc... -- abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ^ ^^