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Lokran
9y ago
You mean like Roosevelt had his soliders kill most, if not all citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? The objective of the two things is remarkably similar by the way - to demonstrate your might and make the enemy surrender out of fear.
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Lokran
9y ago
It doesn't, I was just pointing out that if atrocious military actions means that you can't say anything good about a person there are a lot of leaders included in that. >Anyway, this was different. Merv had surrendered. FDR wa
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Lokran
9y ago
Franklin D. Roosevelt destroyed the largest city in all of Asia.
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Lokran
9y ago
> So you made a fake account just to come here and rant about something unrelated to the main topic? I don't understand how it's a fake account. Would you mind keeping the discussion on a civil level? > Plus, you should cons
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Lokran
9y ago
Equally, how do you feel about killing a servants son and having him eat him because he had refused to kill a child? "Herodotus accounts for the turn of Harpagus' support to a version of the cannibal feast of Thyestes.[1] He repor
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Lokran
9y ago
What he was was a military man of his time and place, much like Alexander the Great, George Washington, Belisarius, Winston Churchill or Douglas MacArthur.
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Lokran
9y ago
How do you feel about this ancient Persian torture method? "The intended victim was stripped naked and then firmly fastened within the interior space of two narrow rowing boats (or hollowed-out tree trunks) joined together one on top o