>>You might try to remember who started that war in which we used WMD. You might try to remember what Europe would be like if we hadn't entered the war and, together with our allies, defeated Germany. You might try to remember what the Japanese did to the Chinese in WW II. Maybe you should read up on the Bataan Death March, Peleliu (sp?), Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, or Okinawa. There's a great new Ken Burns documentary called The War that's recently started playing here. You can buy the DVD. Then maybe you'd understand the reasoning behind the use of the atomic bomb.
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>So that makes you a better civillian killer?
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>>If you want to criticize the U.S., that's fine. We support your right to free speech. It's interesting, however, how that is not supported in Turkey. Try to go out and have a calm, rational, factual, unbiased, and thorough discussion of what happened to the Armenians in WW I in your country and you'll find yourself arrested. Don't forget to criticize that little situation, while you're at it.
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>Orhan Pamuk didn't arrested.
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>Do you know if you says "There didn't any armenian genocidie in Turkey" you will be arrest in France?
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>Do you know a farsi film director arressted at your airport when coming take his award just for being a farsi?
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>Do you know about guantanamo?
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>Do you know about Iraq prisons?
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>Don't talk me about freedoms...

These are not examples of what one repressive regime does to its own people.

Russel's point (I think) is also that if we hadn't stopped the Nazis and the Japanese then none of us would have the right to discuss stuff like this over the internet. Indeed, the web probably wouldn't have existed, except maybe for Axis military use.