Maybe they never wanted a Democracy? I don't think we ever asked them this question. Who knows, if we are determining that giving them Democracy is benefiting them, then thats quite an assumption. Maybe what you are saying is that the sacrfice of the few thousand soldiers for the good of the many (all Iraqi's) is worth it. 1%) to benefit many (lets say 3% of all kids wanting a college education).Īs for applying this to the Iraqi/Afghani wars well. Three, this doesnt have to be applied to a life/death type of situation it can be applied to many things.įor one, I can argue that the richest americans should give up their wealth to send the poor to school, i.e sacrifice of the few (lets say top. MAYBE the time spent on the operation allows a few troops to breach one of the barricades on the beach (because they weren't pummeled by their own shells). Maybe, in your case, the destroyer pummels the bunkers and its own soldiers as well. Two, who has the right to decide what is good for the few vs the many? One, is it our inherent responsibility to sacrifice for the good of the many? Some further insight into this type of debate can be achieved by reading 'The Prince' by Machiavelli, read it if you want some more insight, I found it a good book. I think that this is one of those ideas that could be debated to death. You could make analogies between this incident and what is happening in Iraq and Afghanistan. I just thought this would make for an interesting conversation about what to do and not to do in a difficult situation. Was the captain right in his decision to stop firing to save this one sailor, or would he have made a better choice by firing on the shore and forcing the medical officer to operate under such conditions? By following this decision there is a chance the sailor could have died, but it is very likely that many men on the beach might have been saved.īTW: I hope no one flames me for posting a topic that is not related to today?s news. While this one sailor was saved via the decision not to fire was followed, it is quite likely that many soldiers on the beach were killed due to the lack of firing cover the destroy could have provided during this time.
So for over an hour (hour and a half I believe) the destroyer sat off shore and did nothing but wait for the surgery to finish. The medical officer asked the captain to stop firing so he could operate on this sailor (apparently he did not, or could not, operate while they were firing)
Prior to that the invasion was a total disaster and was in great peril of actually failing, they actually stopped all landing activity for a time because the beach was so crowded with men and vehicles that could not make their way off the beach due to heavy gun fire.ĭuring this time a sailor on one of the Destroyers developed a case of acute appendicitis and would die without surgery. During the landing at Omaha beach on D-day the only thing that saved the ?invasion? was the work of the American destroyers who closed within 300-400 years of the shore and blasted away at the German gun emplacements.
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