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No it’s not though. Most wars do not involve carpet-bombing civilians.

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I think most wars actually do (or equivalent atrocities), which is one of the many reasons war is bad.

The point isn’t “Americans do bad things in war” ; it’s “why does America keep doing war–with war being basically the worst thing on Earth.”

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I think most wars actually do

I beg to differ. War is hell and involves horrible senseless killing s of civilians. However there is a huge difference between attacking military targets with little regards for civilian casualties and targeting civilians directly. Both are evil but the latter is significantly more evil than the former.

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I’m not disagreeing with that at all. What I’m saying is that I’m hard pressed to think of a war where war crimes (like targeting civilians) weren’t committed. Like, I’m not sure there has ever been a war-crime free war.

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