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Posted By: Anonymous

THis is just about the most morally bankrupt statement made yet in this thread. Basically you are saying that there is nothing wrong with killing, death and destruction as long as it is those Arabs in the Middle East who suffer instead of us. WHat makes their lives less valuable than yours?
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It is the responsibility of the US government to look out for its citizens safety and security above/before other's safety and security, especially at a time of war.

The bombing of Japan was done to avert US casaulties estimated up to 1 million men for a successful invasion. I cannot remember the number of casualties but Japanese deaths in the two bombings - I think was in the neighborhood of 700K. To the US government 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.

The fact that many Arab governments don't really represent (nor care about) their people is a sad fact of life - but it shouldn't change the fact that the US government should represent US interests, ideals, and goals. My personal opinion is that we generally "fight nice" and sometimes too nice. That obviously doesn't include our misguided approach to interrogation of some prisoners.