Photos: The Dropping of the Atomic Bomb, 65 years later - Plog
If there were not such stupid people leading the others and if there were not such stupid people serving and listening to this evil leaders, there would not be any wars in the world, no pain. How many lives will it cost to invade (and how many of them will be on our side) vs how many lives will it cost if we drop the bombs? There are a few kneejerk patriotic comments here, but equally, there are plenty which demonstrate a failure to understand that, however abominable the decision to drop the bombs, the alternative was considered to be more abominable
The Mongol War Machine: How were the Mongols able to forge the largest contiguous land empire in history? :
However, if the Mongols were to conquer the world, they would need to be disciplined and be loyal to something or someone more than to themselves and loot. Once the Mongols became master besiegers, the tactic of hiding behind massive stone walls instead of fielding armies to face the Mongols in the open, actually helped the Mongols to beat them, because the Mongols just took every city and town they came across one by one, defeating enemies in a piecemeal fashion
All the elements of the story point forward to that moment: the decision to build a bomb, the secret research at Los Alamos, the first impressive test, and the final culmination at Hiroshima. In the 48 years since, many others have joined the fray: some echoing Alperovitz and denouncing the bombings, others rejoining hotly that the bombings were moral, necessary, and life-saving
One day in some future decade there will be the predicted recession, or high inflation, and you will say you were right, but made the call a few years early. This downshift into a secular bear is caused by a trend in the inflation rate from low, stable inflation to levels of either high inflation or deflation
How Evangelicals Can End the Culture War - OnFaith
Bribery, coercion, tricks, and withholding medicine (or health insurance) are also used by some evangelicals for political reasons in the United States. That way, I would be sure that Christians would not participate in the debate, and their pastors would forbid them form talking about it in church because it was political
Soon after this the symptoms changed and black or purple spots appeared on the arms or thighs or any other part of the body, sometimes a few large ones, sometimes many little ones. To harass the trapped townspeople, the Tartars used their catapults to hurl the dead bodies of their comrades over the town walls spreading the epidemic among the Genoese
Neither is it an attempt to make North Vietnam or the National Liberation Front paragons of virtue, nor to overlook the role they must play in the successful resolution of the problem. I think of them, too, because it is clear to me that there will be no meaningful solution there until some attempt is made to know them and hear their broken cries
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