>>> Jacob Segal <jsegal at mindspring.com> 12/07/99 10:36PM >>
It is nonsense to think that the US would have started dropping nuclear
bombs here and there after WWII. The atom bombing of Japan was a great
crime, of course, but there is no basis or reason to think the US would
have used nuclear weapons again if the Soviet has not developed the same
weapons.
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Charles: It is only nonsense to think it if you have some naive trust and faith in the good ole USA. Since the U.S. did drop the bomb on Japan, seems the burden is on those who say they wouldn't have dropped the bomb on the SU to give their reasons why the U.S. wouldn't . In other words, the fact that the US dropped the bomb on Japan is a reason to think that they would drop it on the S.U. The burden shifts to you to give a reason why not. Why didn't the U.S. agree to ban the bomb when they had it and the Soviets didn't ?
After the Soviets got the bomb, that was the deterant that prevented the U.S. from dropping it.
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The question of the Rosenbergs and Hiss is more a factual one than anything else. They committed the acts that they were accussed of. How serious those "crimes" where is another matter.
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Charles: All these post cold war "proofs" of communist spies and crimes is highly suspect and unbelievable, not credible, extremely susceptible to distortion and fabrication. There is even less of a check on anti-communist falsifiers now than before. All of the "evidence" coming out of Russia now is so obviously subject to falsification it is not funny. Everybody is on the anti-communist side now, so there is no check on bias, no "cross examination" or adversarial test. Everybody in Russia is for sale to the West today. How you going to believe anything they say ? You all fail your legal evidence class.
Oh yes, it turns out the Russians own the Brooklyn Bridge too. Wanna buy it ?
CB