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Andrew...their lives are worth less than a US serviceman's life. While the deaths of those 700K people was gruesome, it was better than the deaths of several hundred thousand US military men and women.
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This probably appeals to those who also call themselves God fearing Christians. From a tactical perspective of the U.S., of course this was necessary move. But implicit in such action is a belief that a human life within one man made border is worth more than another. This notion is root of this thread, Hiroshima/Nagasaki, and almost every historic atrocity.
"Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." -- Erica Jong