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Taxed and Spent

On 12/5/2016 7:37 AM, wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Dec 2016 05:48:16 -0800, Taxed and Spent
> > wrote:
>
>> On 12/5/2016 3:15 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>> On Sunday, December 4, 2016 at 7:53:11 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
>>>> In article >,
>>>> says...
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 5 Dec 2016 11:12:00 +1100, Bruce >
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> In article >, Dave Smith says...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 2016-12-04 3:09 PM, wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> These types of things were always happening. We just hear and see more
>>>>>>>>> about them. Be happy you didn't get as much information about the
>>>>>>>>> Vietnam war, back in the day. Or take Hiroshima/Nagasaki.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I think the world's no more rotten than it used to be.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If that's correct then we are guilty of not correcting it!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We cannot correct the wrongs of the past that we done by previous
>>>>>>> generations. Nor should we be expected to pay for those wrongs after we
>>>>>>> have changed our ethos. I refuse to feel guilty for nuclear attacks on
>>>>>>> Japan that we the decisions of my grandparent's generation. By the same
>>>>>>> token, I do not hold the Japanese of today responsible for the
>>>>>>> atrocities committed by their parents, grandparents and great grandparents.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I agree, but you can ask the younger generations to acknowledge the
>>>>>> wrongs committed by the previous generations.
>>>>>
>>>>> Even my uncle who did nearly six years in a Nagasaki coal mine after
>>>>> his ship was sunk felt the nuclear bombs were too much.
>>>>
>>>> I think it's the worst crime in the western world after the Holocaust.
>>>
>>> I believe the actions of the Khmer Rouge have it beaten.
>>>
>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>
>>
>>
>> Hard to beat Joe Stalin.
>
> True but he mostly killed his own. I read his daughters book recently
> and she confessed she suddenly made a connection in her teens that any
> relatives or friends who crossed him just 'disappeared' - as well as
> millions of strangers.
>

Killing your own is somehow better than killing an enemy?