Hmmmm, what two countries indicrimatly bombed Polish and Chinese cities? Tough for them when we paid them back.
A key question to ask: were the civilians aiding ther war machine by working in factories and other industries in support of the war effort? If so, they are part of the wartime logistics infrastructure.
What's past is past. Get over it. Learn from history and don't do it again. Now that wasn't too hard, was it?
Not unless a Republican was President.
The Germans bombed British civilians long before German cities were bombed. Besides, German manufacturing took place in urban areas. The apologists will trot out the bombing of Dresden, but to them I say....So what? The winners get to write the history.
The only reason we don't do it now, is because we don't have to. The US was definitely offering Mutually Assured Destruction to the Soviets. We still do, it's just that both sides decided to take their fingers off the trigger for a spell.
When's the apology due?
"World War II both the Britain’s Bomber Command and the United States Army Air Force deliberately targeted civilians".
When you are dealing with murdering governments that are targeting your civilians, you target their civilians.
Give the other side a dose of their own medicine.
Can there really be civilians in all out war?
It is the "civilians" that manufacture the goods that empower the war machine to continue on.
Slay, loot, pillage, and burn.
Next?
How far back y'all wanna go?
Why do I think there's a good chance that, on 9/11, he didn't have any loved ones in the World Trade Center or in the Pentagon or in any of the planes that were used as missiles while carrying our loved ones?
To even ask the question indicates that a Liberal Socialist is behind it. It is nothing more than a way to rewrite history to make the white European male evil. WE did not attack civilians of countries we were not a war with, unlike the 911 terrorist. We did not go out of our way to attack civilians, unlike the Palestinian Terrorist. In fact we tried to avoid churches, schools, and hospitals. Even the targets for the nuclear bombs were industrial targets. We had a choice to take out some of Japans religious cities but chose not to for humanitarian reasons.
This question is nothing more that MORAL RELATIVISM to make it seem that the Arab Terrorist are just nothing more that freedom fighters. The question is seditious and propaganda.
It's called, "Total War". Grant and Sherman reinvented it in the US Civil War, but it has been with us since the dawn of civilization. I have been in a war, and there really is no way to fight, "by the rules." Because, if you do, and the other country doesn't, you may lose.
Was Sherman's "March to the Sea" a war crime? It specifically targetted civilian infrastructure.
Like my buddy Rush says, in war the aggressor sets the rules. Japan and Germany set the rules, and Team America beat them.
I had to read a book this last semester by an idiot named Bruce Cumings. The whole thing was a rant about how evil the United States is, especially for the "war crimes" and "genocide" we perpetrated during World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. He believes that during World War II, the United States was on the same level as Nazi Germany.
He also spends almost the entire preface on a mindless Bush bash. “Bush stole the election.” “He was selected not elected.” “Bush is an idiot.” “He lost the popular vote so he really didn’t win.” (One would think Cumings, who is probably an intelligent person, would remember that the so called “popular vote” doesn’t mean anything in U.S. Presidential elections.) Even the tragic event involving the U.S.S. Greenville is used to lay blame at the feet of President Bush. Then he implies that the President is totally over blowing the threat of Islamic terrorists and using Sept. 11th as an excuse to continue a Cold War mentality. All of this of course means that the President is also responsible for the continuing problems with North Korea. According to Cumings, has the U.S. just continued the policies of Bill Clinton, everything would have been just fine on the Korean Peninsula.
If we get into a war where we and an enemy are at each other's necks like the allies and axis were in WWII, you better believe there is going to be bombing of civilians.
Was the asshole who wrote this even alive for WWII?
"Grayling acknowledges that American bombing attacks on German fuel stocks, transportation and aircraft factories actually had some significant effect on the outcome of the war, so he gives the U.S. Army Air Force a partial pass. The USAAF usually attempted precision bombing of industrial targets by day; the Royal Air Force’s Bomber Command usually attempted area bombing by night, and aimed at whole cities. Grayling does not give the Bomber Command that partial pass."