Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Inter arma silent leges and Save Prabhakaran campaign – II

No War mongering

(TI)It is not a story of war mongering to remind ourselves how even super powers reacted in a situation of national emergency caused by perceived threat to their territorial integrity and threat to values they believe in. ‘Democracy’ [the Four Freedoms] is its name though there are many other things hidden in it like perpetual exploitation of the poorer countries. One saw how America reacted to Pearl Harbour bombing; and by dropping Atomic bombs on the crowded cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, even after the Pacific War was almost over with no humanitarian consideration for Japanese civilians; and more recently to revenge the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. Full Text