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I'm pretty much in agreement with this posting. In essence the life of even a single innocent civilian is a tragedy. However the tragedy multiplies as the number of innocents killed does. I believe your statements basically states this. This could lead to an extremely long statement but I believe the short version sums it up.
I didn't imply that the U.S. did, none of the situations I listed were indeed intentional for the U.S. post WW2. A drop in the bucket, in morbid terms yes. But what is the value of a human life exactly then? These things regardless happen. The U.S. has used very nasty substances that led and is currently leading still in the destruction of life or severe damaging of such even today.
HOWEVER by no means is this isolated to the U.S. operating in wars only. Other nations have done this and are doing it as well. This is not a American military practice, but moreover a phenomenon of armed conflict, in particular modern armed conflict.
As for your mentioned statements on the nature of the Second World War, it was the last total war for America, defined by the complete arranging of entire countries' social structures for the forwarding of a war effort until the destruction of her enemy. This scale led to the increased levels of human loss of life from all sides during such a conflict, being the stakes as they were.
Depending on your sense of the value of a human life (something that can spur hundreds of debates about in itself.) You can either justify or damn the actions of any case, whether it be the bombing of Dresden, or the Reprisal of the Soviets in the taking of Berlin against the local population.
Or even go as far as saying the mass murders of the Nazis against Eastern Europeans as an aide in the war to encourage the Soviets to fight harder to end the war more quickly.
One's disgusting outlooks may seem sound to another.
This type of thinking can be although not the only factor, attributed to cases of civilians being killed in armed conflict.
Yes, and I agree, the U.S. does not sport this intentionally as a method of either warfare or statesmen ship. But other countries have and do.
However I don't see how in our case any moral high ground can be achieved in this type of situation as even today JDAMs fall through the roofs of hospitals in error, and Hellfires blow up not only the car with the target by the bus of civilians behind it.
This will always be a factor in warfare. Different cultures and social outlooks on it can determine how much of a occurrence it will be.
I'm pretty much in agreement with this posting. In essence the life of even a single innocent civilian is a tragedy. However the tragedy multiplies as the number of innocents killed does. I believe your statements basically states this. This could lead to an extremely long statement but I believe the short version sums it up.
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