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minus-squarelivus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up28arrow-down1·2 months agoWell no, the best hand you could have played would have been to drop them on military targets instead of civilian targets. Those bombs were war crimes too; we don’t need to invoke some kind of American exceptionalism for a war crime that happened 80 years ago.
minus-squarebarsquid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·2 months agoInternment camps are also war crime AFAIK. So it seems like the situation is just that the US government did not believe Japanese people were human and decided to do war crimes and human rights violations.
minus-squarelivus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up13·2 months agoYes, I agree. WWII had a bunch of war crimes in it. I would rather we learned from them than we tried to justify them. McNamara says of the firebombing of Japan that LeMay knew it was a war crime.
Well no, the best hand you could have played would have been to drop them on military targets instead of civilian targets.
Those bombs were war crimes too; we don’t need to invoke some kind of American exceptionalism for a war crime that happened 80 years ago.
Internment camps are also war crime AFAIK. So it seems like the situation is just that the US government did not believe Japanese people were human and decided to do war crimes and human rights violations.
Yes, I agree. WWII had a bunch of war crimes in it. I would rather we learned from them than we tried to justify them.
McNamara says of the firebombing of Japan that LeMay knew it was a war crime.