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FLPanhandle

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28. It's only a war crime if the losing side does it.

Reply to Bonobo (Original post)

Mon Mar 9, 2015, 10:22 AM

Mar 2015

Dresden was just as bad.

Hell, people still praise General Sherman because of his "wage war on the citizens" tactics during the Civil War.

The lesson is not to get into a war unless you are sure you are going to win it.

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Tokyo firebombing - survivors recall most destructive air raid in history [View all] Bonobo Mar 2015 OP

100,000 civilians killed in ONE NIGHT and a million made homeless. Bonobo Mar 2015 #1

kr ND-Dem Mar 2015 #2

Thank you. Bonobo Mar 2015 #3

in general, americans don't seem big on memory. ND-Dem Mar 2015 #4

I didn't realize they were "napalm bomblets." Suich Mar 2015 #5

One of the saddest movie I have ever seen was yuiyoshida Mar 2015 #6

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless Tierra_y_Libertad Mar 2015 #7

From "The Fog of War" betsuni Mar 2015 #8

The real barbarians malaise Mar 2015 #9

May I ask if you are familiar with The Rape of Nanking? Telcontar Mar 2015 #10

One can condemn both acts. Bonobo Mar 2015 #11

someone had a cow but didn't get far. hobbit709 Mar 2015 #12

hunh...for the record, I didnt alert Telcontar Mar 2015 #14

One was necessary to stop the other Telcontar Mar 2015 #13

Condemn doesn't mean label. Lancero Mar 2015 #15

The Rape of Nanking was committed by Japanese soldiers. betsuni Mar 2015 #16

Committed by soldiers... Against civilians. Lancero Mar 2015 #18

Well, I didn't call the U.S. the true barbarians. betsuni Mar 2015 #20

I think too many people really dont understand what war is Telcontar Mar 2015 #19

I know it wasn't. I was referring to proportional as in the video betsuni Mar 2015 #22

Sorry, thought you were responding to me Telcontar Mar 2015 #23

Well, now I've lost tack of who I'm responding to... betsuni Mar 2015 #24

And what's what a lot of people who decry attacks like these don't care to look into. Lancero Mar 2015 #25

"civilization is no more than a veneer, through which barbarism is always about to extrude." Demit Mar 2015 #26

The Cigar Who Brought the Fire Wind: Curtis LeMay and the Incendiary Bombing of Japan Octafish Mar 2015 #17

People who live in paper houses should not start war. CK_John Mar 2015 #21

^^THIS^^ nt DustyJoe Mar 2015 #27

It's only a war crime if the losing side does it. FLPanhandle Mar 2015 #28