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Originally Posted by FLCL
mumitroll, by definition bombing cities and military targets through military means is a military act, rounding up jews, slavs, and gypsies and killing them systemically is NOT THE SAME THING. By your pathetic definition, every military act is an act of genocide, put down the crack pipe. Civilians who die through military acts are victims of collateral damage whereas in the holocaust or similar genocides, it is the civilians themselves who are the target. The nuking of japan was to act as a detente and shock to japanese militarism which it itself declared it would fight to the death anyways.
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It's this kind of crackpot reasoning that gives America a bad name.
Collateral damage?
Pre-emptive strike?
Watering?
What else?