What is the most devastating single terrorist attack in history?

[sirio11]

Dictionary.com define a terrorist attack as "the calculated use of violence (or threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature."

Some of the other threads make me think about this. The Guiness book list 9-11, but I think the #1 should be the bombing of Hiroshima (140,000 civilians killed) and #2 the bombing of Nagasaki (70,000 civilians killed).

What is your take on this?

[lehighguy]

The democrats are finished.

[Utah]

It was the fire bombing of Tokyo. Not only did the U.S. massacre an unreal number of people, but they hid the reality of what they were doing from the American public. The U.S. even worked out ways to make civilian homes and civilian burn better. There is nothing more disturbing to me in U.S. history.

[theweatherman]

How about the bombing of Dresden, Germany?

[Arnfinn Madsen]

One of best poems ever written in Norwegian language (I'll try to translate to English):


Raw youth

Our ideals will they only laugh of;
Stealing, killing, burning, raping, plundring and cheating!
Can you understand where they have their rawness from?

Much should they admire; Dresden did we leave this way;
Like a tundra with five hundred, five hundred thousand corpses;
Much should they admire: Our culture is high and rich!

We have fought for morale, clean spiritual life.
Youth is wild and crazy, sick and raw and destructive!
For culture, for morale. For a clean spiritual life!

The fight was for cleanness, for culture and discipline.
From Katyn to Hiroshima, Dresden, Warzawa, Berlin!
From Katyn to Hiroshima, Dresden, Warzawa, Berlin!

Much should they admire, which they detest!
Stealing, killing, burning, raping, plundring and cheating!
Can you understand where they have their rawness from?

[Dynasty]

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The U.S. even worked out ways to make civilian homes and civilian burn better.

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Of course, they did. If you're going to make and use incediary bombs, you should make them as effective as possible.

[Zeno]

Undercard:

The sun was rising when Lot reached Zoar. Suddenly the Lord rained burning sulfur on the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and destoryed them and the whole valley, along with all the people there and everything that grew on the land. -Genesis chp. 19 v. 23-26 (Good News Bible)

Main Event:

The flood continued for forty days, and the water became deep enough for the boat to float. The water became deeper, and the boat drifited on the surface. It became so deep that it covered the highest mountians; it went on rising until it was about twenty-five feet above the tops of the mountains. Every living being on the earth died - every bird, every anamial, and every person. Everything on earth that breathed died. The Lord destroyed all living beings on the earth - human beings, animals, and birds. The only ones left were Noah and those who were with him in the boat. - Genesis Chp. 7, v. 17-24 (Good News Bible)


I rest my case.

-Zeno

[Utah]

It destroys the argument that it was blanket bombing to destroy the industrial base of Japan. The U.S. government wanted civilians to burn.

[sirio11]

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(Good News Bible)


I rest my case.

-Zeno


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Didn't know you were such a follower of the bible.

Good to see you have seen the light.

[sirio11]

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Not only did the U.S. massacre an unreal number of people, but they hid the reality of what they were doing from the American public

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mmmmmm, this sounds familiar ....