sci.energy.hydrogen

On Sun, 5 Aug 2007 11:56:26 -0400, "Bob Brock"
wrote:

>
>"Stuart Grey" < @ > wrote in message
>news:-L-dnTbdeO4aeijbnZ2dnUVZ_qTinZ2d@ ...
>> On Sun, 05 Aug 2007 10:40:26 -0400, Li RM wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 05 Aug 2007 00:21:04 -0500, Stuart Grey
>>> < @ > wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 18:08:54 -0700, Gunner Asch wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> It worked and at least 3 million people were spared death in Total War
>>>>> on the Japanese islands.
>>>>>
>>>>> Gunner
>>>>
>>>>Yes, it did work. It actually SAVED a lot of lives.
>>>>
>>>>The Japanese were teaching their school children to attack Americans
>>>>with sharpened bamboo sticks.
>>>>
>>>>Then it became obvious that we could wipe them out as a race from the
>>>>air with impunity. Their choice was extinction, or surrender and live
>>>>well.
>>>>
>>>>A very horrible battle was avoided.
>>>>
>>>>We should have used this tactic on Iraq, when Falluja first started to
>>>>harbor terrorist. It would have saved many lives on both sides had we
>>>>just leveled Falluja to dust, with impunity, from the air. NEVER give
>>>>them a chance to fight back. It encourages them. Hell, the Koran even
>>>>INSTRUCTS them to behave when the Infidel has the upper hand.
>>>
>>> Here, here to that.
>>>
>>> Sniper in the minaret?
>>>
>>> Level the city block.
>>>
>>> Iran providing weapons to the bad guys in Iraq?
>>>
>>> Level Tehran.
>>>
>>> Al-queda attacking the US and killing our civilians in the name of
>>> Islam?
>>>
>>> Level a few Islamic countries and crisp a few million Muslims.
>>>
>>> People behave when they get the shit kicked out of them.
>>>
>>> Usually.
>>>
>>> Those who don't get the shit kicked out of them again.
>>>
>>> Ask Germany for clarification on this effective military strategy.
>>
>> Ask a southerner about Sherman's march to the sea, where he destroyed
>> everything in his wake.
>>
>> It is how wars are really won. Yes, it is brutal.
>
>Once again, you confuse conventional war with terrorism. You need to
>understand that with terrorist, there is no "South" because they are not
>constrained by nationality or country.
>
>BTW, yes my great grandparents homestead was burned to the ground, along
>with the crops, by Sherman's troops. However, Sherman issued strict orders
>against harming civilians because he knew what that would have brought on.
>

Kind of like what incinerating the civilians of Tokyo, Hiroshima,
Nagasaki and Dresden brought on?