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Originally Posted by Rusky
What he is saying is, nuking people is not nice. All you need to do to appreciate that is go somethere there you can see war for what it really is, death, blood, and orphans, and all that other stuff, which is not nice, then one sees all of that with his own eyes there is a different angle that opens up. Oh i have some stories for you my friend....
I hope this explains it a bit.
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I know that using nuclear weapons is not 'nice.' I am also aware that battle is gory and physically disgusting.
However, I do not confuse my humanitarian or emotional responses with military concerns. The business of war is to defeat the enemy in such a way that is in accordance with one's interests. This may include the large-scale slaughter of innocent people. So be it.
Emotional sensations of guilt are valuable in a philosophical sense or perhaps as the content of a memoir afterwards, but not when the war is actually taking place.
The military fact remains that nuclear weapons are a powerful way of achieving ends.