During WWII, Americans were offended by the Japanese strategy of Kamikaze. This is the same thing.
If American GI's were in a city fighting to take it, and the American government authorized strategic nuking the entire front with bombs, we would be outraged.
Your PoV is unAmerican. I'm just letting you know, that such apologetics are unbecoming. IMO. I just don't know when we all became so uncivilized and uncaring about life, I really don't.
. . . with that said, if we DO accept that this is the modern state of war, to condemn one side for doing it, but then, when our side does it, to just excuse it, is to play a hypocrite in acceptance of the propaganda.
How many times are we going to hear. . .
"Hamas uses civilians as human shields," and then turn around and buy into the hundreds and thousands were killed on Oct. 7th, only to find out, many, many of them, were killed callously in friendly fire. . . i.e. human shields by the Israelis themselves?
I just get sick to death of the double standards and the lies in the propaganda in war, I really do.
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Fifty years ago this week, during the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, a US Army major famously remarked to a journalist, “It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.” Pilloried for its callousness, one fellow officer who claimed to have been present even said it went “down in history as an...
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