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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reagan won the Cold War.  Probably the biggest contribution to humanity since the end of WWII.[/quote]

TOTAL NONSENSE!  First, Reagan didn't do anything - the USSR dissolved!  And second, since WWII we have been involved in so many more horrible and deadly wars (Korea, Viet Nam, Afghanistan, Iraq) [b]that WWII looks quaint in comparison.[/b]  [/quote]

Are you nuts? WWII look quaint? Failed history did you?

13 million dead in the Holocaust alone. Deaths to civilians from the waging of war, famine and disease attributed directly to the war...including holocaust victims, 50 million plus...and deaths to those who were a part of the war effort between 20 and 25 million. Total dead from all causes between 70 and 85 million. NOTHING that has happened so far exceeds the level of brutality and volume of human suffering during WWII. Beyond the loss of military lives, which is far less than WWII, in those other wars you will have a lot of civilians but the totals in any one of those wars, and the total of all of them, do not exceed WWII. And by no rational and factual measure can one declare they did.[/quote]

Look up the Khmer rouge, the slaughter of the Kurds when we left Iraq the first time, and the total lose of life of American service men tells half of the story since medical advances have allowed many gravely injured and burned soldiers to survive battlefield injuries - but not live happy or productive lives.  Look it up, PP.  My father was a medic in WWII and went on to become a doctor - I know the valor of the service people in WWII but that does not change either the facts or the horrors of the subsequent wars.  [/quote]

Honestly...I don't to look those up...fairly familiar with those and others...there are more to add to the list...how about Bosnia?. Mao in China. Stalin in Russia. Those murdered in Korea by the communist and also those in South Korea. Viet Nam. Uganda. The list is long.

But, your statement doesn't change the fact that no war or atrocity...as bad as they are in their own right...compares to what happened in WWII and that is what I responded to...your stating that WWII looks quaint in comparison to the more recent events. Fact is that in six years an average of 12 million plus died annually...find me another conflict or time that has that level of death since 1940. And that doesn't even include those who were maimed or injured. The estimate of which is close to the same as the death total.

BTW...I had a family member, wounded three times in WWII and once in Korea, didn't die until the late 60's directly related to one of the wounds suffered after D-Day. So who knows how many more. Tell ya what's really sad about the American's killed in WWII...in all wars actually...the average age. That one video stated in WWII it was 23.

Bottom line is...when you consider the scope...nothing has made WWII look quaint.[/quote]

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