tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10523517.post112355246017198362..comments2023-09-09T17:38:22.939+08:00Comments on Blogging... Walk The Talk: Nagasaki and the Liberation of Hong KongDave and Stefanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03374243021807086912noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10523517.post-1123576318964789412005-08-09T16:31:00.000+08:002005-08-09T16:31:00.000+08:00It is amazing to think also, does it not, of what ...It is amazing to think also, does it not, of what might have happened to yourself personally had things been different sixty years ago?<BR/><BR/>I know if it were not for the ruinous war and its consequences, my German mother and my Shanghainese father would never have met in America.<BR/><BR/>- DavidDave and Stefanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03374243021807086912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10523517.post-1123576111892480022005-08-09T16:28:00.000+08:002005-08-09T16:28:00.000+08:00Yes, if World War II held any lesson, it seems to ...Yes, if World War II held any lesson, it seems to be that countries must retain their military strength and not allow utopian visions of World Peace being the natural order of things to cloud that goal. Britain and France failed to anticipate the rapid re-armament of Germany, and the aggression of both Germany and Japan; Britain and the world paid a terrible price. <BR/><BR/>It seems a terrible irony, but I very much believe that the world's possessions of nuclear weapons has prevented much greater conflicts from breaking out between the US and the USSR, as well as between the US and China.<BR/><BR/>However, the danger comes now as the secrets of nuclear technology have passed well down the food chain to dangerous countries and highly violent non-state actors.Dave and Stefanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03374243021807086912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10523517.post-1123571564726468382005-08-09T15:12:00.000+08:002005-08-09T15:12:00.000+08:00My Grandfather was part of the troops that were su...My Grandfather was part of the troops that were supposed to make the amphibious assault on Japan...the bombs being dropped stopped that...as you say...before condemning the dropping of the bombs...."think first of the lives it spared." <BR/><BR/>A terrible period of history and one that I hope the world does not repeat.Madame Chianghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09493771717653319376noreply@blogger.com