Hiroshima - The Worst Terrorist Attack in Human History

Hiroshima, whether justified or not - and it is possible that it was justified - was the worst, most destructive single (state) (terrorist) attack in human history. Let us hope this remains the case.

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Just to balance things out I will put this....

After the first bomb was dropped surrender was fully expected within moments. There was blood in the fireball. A town was rubbed out like a full stop with an eraser. And yet no surrender came. Three days later this was repeated. And still no surrender came.

A testament to the malevolent power of over-fanatical belief. "Tantum nationalismus potuit suadare malorum."...

There is still anger today in the UK about the way that Japan conducted the war.

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Monday, September 04, 2006


Something amiss

Martin Amis on Mohammed Atta in the Observer.Well. er. i will shut up. for now.

OK So Mohammed Atta may have been a reptilian religious psychopath.

As well as a human being of course.
And there might be not much more to it. I don't know.

Amis may not have been saying "those people are just like that" but I don't know if he avoided giving that impression.

But, most importantly, why doesn't someone write an essay examining the person and mind of an American "soldier" bulldozing sand over suffocating Iraqi conscripts?

Anyway I'm pretty fed up with everyone saying that 9/11 was some kind of uniquely evil event that changed the world.

It certainly didn't change the determination of the USA to invade in Iraq. The US was going to invade Iraq anyway.

I think the 15th/16th January 1991 was just as evil, disturbing and distressing as 9/11. But no one else seems to.

The 16th January 1991 as just as evil as "9/11". 


"16/01" was worse and more evil event than "9/11" in my view.

It needs to be said that Amis' essay on nuclear weapons, "Thinkability", is really good. It is a very complete and precise exposition of why they need to be opposed. Wonderfully written too.

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