hold on beefy: You don't blame ALL muslims for muslim terrorist attacks, but you blame ALL checens for Checen terrorist attacks? Even my xenophobic, intolerant self can see there is something wrong with that. Why the double standard? Draw broad strokes with your brush, or don't paint at all, you can't play both ways.
Originally posted by truejedi
hold on beefy: You don't blame ALL muslims for muslim terrorist attacks, but you blame ALL checens for Checen terrorist attacks? Even my xenophobic, intolerant self can see there is something wrong with that. Why the double standard? Draw broad strokes with your brush, or don't paint at all, you can't play both ways.
I don't blame all Chechens either, but the proportion of population to terrorists is much much greater with Chechens than Middle Eastern Muslims and therefore, I think they should be dealt with more strictly. At the same time, I wouldn't shed a tear if Russia goes in there exterminates a huge number of people, for the same reason why I would have preferred that the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs had been dropped on Berlin and wiped out its population.
Originally posted by Lord Lucien
Why Berlin? (Race factor removed)
Would have ended the war with Germany sooner, had we had the bomb at that time. Plus, see how many people were at those Hitler rallies? I wouldn't think twice about dropping the bomb on Berlin.
Also, we don't get our Nadal Federer final... 🙁
Originally posted by Lord Lucien
Was the atom bomb ready to be dropped in May instead of August? If Berlin had been bombed sooner than May (I take it you're looking at in terms of months before), then would Japan have surrendered sooner as well without being bombed themselves?
The atom bomb wasn't ready for another 11 months after Germany's surrender.