[Tyche]

One of the things in past wars like WWII for example. Tried to get rid of the "human" element of the fighting.

Thats why we had propaganda and posters depicting our enemies as not human. We always called them evil and nonhuman to try to remove that fabric of moral dilemma to it.

[Treader]

Please provide a source for the US "propaganda & posters" that provoked Germany to attack Poland and Japan to attack Pearl Harbor... you do have such facts readily available don't ya? Or, is it that you represented "we" as the Axis powers?

[Treader]

Got facts? Please quote Zinn or Chomsky at will...

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Bad example. In WWII the Nazis and Imperial Japanese WERE evil and nonhuman.

Just like the saying about paranoia, sometimes the enemy you demonize really is demonic.

The problem with WWII was in humanizing the Bolsheviks.

[VOA]

Tried to get rid of the "human" element of the fighting.

Huh? If the USA used "propaganda", it was to get Americans off their
derrieres and into the fight. And there was good reason for Americans
to not want any part of the fight...as the participation in
WWI seemed to have been a pretty futile exercise in terms of preventing
the problems in Europe that gave birth to WWII.
There was a reason that the US guvmint had to hire Frank Capra to
do the "Why We Fight" series...to give the average American a booster
shot of human concern over events in Europe and the Pacific.

Thats why we had propaganda and posters depicting our enemies as
not human.

Fair call in some cases. But in some cases, if the enemies were portrayed
as "not human", it was that they were showed as almost "superhuman"
in their determination to dominate and enslave.
And those posters told folks only a maximal effort would carry the day.

We always called them evil and nonhuman to try to remove that
fabric of moral dilemma to it.

You have a point. All we had to do was show the truth about the Nazis
and the Bushido-code Japanese.
Those lamps made of human flesh and the bayonet practice on chained
prisoners were the work of flesh-and-blood human sadists and sociopaths.