[pepsionice]

I’m curious...would Napoleon be accused of war crimes today?

Would Robert E. Lee be accused of war crimes today?

Would George Washington be accused of war crimes today?

Would Custer be accused of war crimes today (if he was dead on the campaign field anyway)?

Would Sherman be accused of war crimes today?

Would Mark Antony be accused of war crimes today?

Would Stephen the Great be accused of war crimes today?

After a while...historians burn every bridge that they could have crossed...and then they tend to be anything but a historian.

[Westbrook]

War crimes can only be committed by white Europeans or those of white European descent.

[WorkingClassFilth]

A: Yes.

But then, you’d have to realize that the accusations would be coming from an academic - in ivory towers.

[skimbell]

Warcrime

Warcrime

Fair is fair!

[Hardastarboard]

It’s awfully easy to look at today’s precision guided munitions which can almost be used to kill an individual person in the field, versus WW II’s more or less carpet bombing of a facility. There is no comparison, and anyone who makes that comparison is a historical illiterate and should be ignored, IMHO

[Boiling Pots]

Since they’re all white and all western, then the answer is Yes.

[EBH]

...as Thomas Paine once wrote about those who would desire “Peace in my day,” that very phrase is not one that is either fatherly or generous.

As Paine correctly points out it is the generous parent that that would have said, “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day that my child may have peace;” and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

War crimes on D-Day. Surely the day and death of thousands is horrific, but what of the millions who had already been killed at the hands of a brutal enemy? The complacency of the city would surely not save their lives at the hands of the enemy. They knew this, yet few would take up arms to defend themselves, neighbors, and children.