tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35631991.post7895167474011481012..comments2023-10-03T10:10:41.314-07:00Comments on The Blue Elephant: Letter to the New York TimesThe Blue Elephanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11514900714717443096noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35631991.post-27160100168693432862011-09-12T13:57:31.707-07:002011-09-12T13:57:31.707-07:00As well as the firebombing before that of most Jap...As well as the firebombing before that of most Japanese cities (C.f., "The Fog of War"). I have confessed before that I could not help what thoughts came into my head unbidden as I saw first tower fall..."Hiroshima"....and then as the second tower fell..."Nagasaki." It is not that I justify any violence or don't feel all dead should receive commemoration, but I could not refrain from consider which of the people who hated us might feel justified: the countries where the U.S. overthrew their democracies? the mass of people mocked for decades as "towelheads"? Puerto Ricans and others subjected to medical experiments as if not human.....The Blue Elephanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11514900714717443096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35631991.post-12935975178131256452011-09-12T11:20:06.659-07:002011-09-12T11:20:06.659-07:00Yes, 10 years too late. And something else: why ...Yes, 10 years too late. And something else: why do we allow these annual shows of grief about the bombing of the towers when the US has never apologized for its terrorist bombing of two Japanese cities in 1945?Beverly Dahlennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35631991.post-58557555916856785892011-09-12T07:58:45.071-07:002011-09-12T07:58:45.071-07:00let me know if the unexpected happened and they pu...let me know if the unexpected happened and they published it!mouse (aka kimy)https://www.blogger.com/profile/09385557065971602436noreply@blogger.com