Decision to Use the Atomic Term Paper

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Because, clearly, we committed acts of terrorism in dropping the bombs on Japan. The intent was to create a massive destruction to horrific that the victims could not help but surrender without further fight - which is, of course, what happened. Our new brand of terrorism is, truly, the only effective manner that certain people have of waging a war. When you do not have the technology or the resources of the largest nations in the world, but you do know how to make and plant a bomb that is likely to kill civilians and military targets as well - do you simply roll over and surrender because you might kill innocent people? If that was the case, then the United States would have never been able to wage war with anyone using bombs and missiles and rockets - the war could have only been waged by spies and snipers.


Terrorism, then, is a political construct used to brand a particular enemy with a very negative brush. It is an implied immaturity, a "cowardice" that a group of fighters will refuse to engage a clearly and overwhelmingly superior military and instead kill civilians - which seems to have a greater effect toward achieving their desired outcome. Terrorists can often live to fight another day. Soldiers can't. If we insist on defining terrorism in this manner, then we have to accept the label on ourselves for carrying out the attacks against civilians in Japan, German, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf I and Gulf II, and whenever again in the future we do so......

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