Originally Posted by fred
Ah, someone else is starting to notice.
BTW The political faction which has taken control of the American Government were nicknamed "The Crazies" back in the 70s and 80s because they were campaigning for nuclear war with the USSR. They have managed to get the rules of engagement changed to allow pre-emtive nuclear strikes.
If Israel threatens Syria then Syria will respond and so will Iran, they have a mutual defence treaty. If America backs Israel then Russia and China will back Iran and that will be WWIII and it would almost certainly go nuclear with Neocons at the helm.
There are a lot of threads about 9/11, Iraq, Lebanon, the price of petrol, but they are all about the same thing. Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon arn't three different wars they are all part of the same war and wars are easy to start, easily escalate and get out of hand, are very hard things to stop and attrocities are always committed by both sides.
My uncle was a Japanese prisoner of war, all my parents generation were in WWII, my grandfather was in the trenches in WWI. We didn't know about 9/11 or 7/7 then but we knew about 11/11/11 we were never allowed to forget because it was so important not to forget, by remembering the horrors of war we could make certain it never happened again and that was the one thing my parents generation and their parents generation deemed more important than anything else. They would be appalled at how eager some people are to see the start of WWIII today, they would think we'd gone mad.
We must never forget the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, never pretend it wasn't an attrocity, never try to excuse it and never ever let it happen again.