From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sat Nov 24 2001 - 21:49:39 MST
"J. R. Molloy" wrote:
>
> From: <CurtAdams@aol.com>
> > At least with the benefit of hindsight I'd say that our killing the
> > requisite tens of millions of Russian soldiers and civilians would
> > have been an inescusable atrocity.
>
> Not necessarily. If killing ten million prevents the deaths of 30 million,
> then it's a net gain... and since Stalin murdered 30 million Russians (not to
> mention non-Russians), then killing him plus ten million others would have
> been a humanitarian mission.
>
Not really. History would simply list a different set of
butchers.
- s.
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