.... So that when America finally developed the
atomic bomb, those with the power to use it had very little sympathy
left. But loosing that atomic death, whose lingering effects were not
yet known, on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, making war against the innocent
women and children of that tragic country..... One atrocity doesn't
justify another.' And while he was not sure she would understand the
parallel, he knew no other way of reaching her.
'The problem with revenge, Sylviana, is that you never hurt the
people you're trying to, but only create new victims. Your country
condemned to a slow and horrible death, by all the ills and cancers of
radiation poisoning, more than a million men, women and children who had
no knowledge of, and took no willing hand in, the butcheries of their
military government.'
'I don't care!' cried the young woman bitterly. 'You have
to care,' said Stenmark grievously, 'Even if it happened
before you were born. And even then, that's only the smaller
part of Kataya's anger. You lost your father, as we all lost
those dear to us..... Imagine if you had lost Kalus, in the
full flower of your pure and uncorrupted love for him? And not
only Kalus, but the innocent life his seed had planted in your
womb.
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