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Originally Posted by JohnnyCanuck
It's not confined to the US, but why should we forget? Remembering our mistakes should be the best way to avoid repeating. While I get that doesn't directly apply to 9/11, it does to so much of what we choose to devote remembrance to.
The problem is that your underlying point is very strong and there's no easy answer to providing the balance. 9/11 is still with us in everything from airport security to military entanglements in the Middle East to the excesses by which our national security agencies intrude on our privacy to the anger and hate which you refer.
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Not a mistake. The bomb not only saved 500,00 American lives or so, they saved MILLIONS of Japanese lives. Specifically, the Japanese were not going to surrender, and they had no food to eat, 100,000,000 people had no food to eat.