[WikiEN-l] Re: The integrity of Wikipedia

Fri Feb 13 09:45:59 UTC 2004

Gareth Owen wrote:

>Rick <giantsrick13 at yahoo.com> writes:
>
>>Calling the people who killed over 3000 innocent people "militants", and
>>refusing to allow them to be labeled as "terrorists" 
>>
>So terrorism = "taking thousands of innocent lives"
>
>What about the pilot of the Enola Gay?  
>or the RAF bombers who levelled Dresden.  
>
>Should we call them terrorists, too?
>
Of course!  Truman's stated intention with bombing Hiroshima was to 
bring the war to a quicker end by demonstrating to the Jaoanese just 
what he was capable of.  The threat that Tokyo would be next was always 
there.  Thus he terrorized them into submission.  Through some chain of 
command the pilot of the Enola Gay was following Truman's orders, just 
as the hijackers were following bin Laden's.

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