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War crimes are okay as long as you’re the good guys, apparently.

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https://media.giphy.com/media/9xijGdDIMovchalhxN/giphy.webp

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War crimes only count if you lose the war. Its most often winners trying losers for their crimes

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yeah Canada didn't get any consequences even though the Genève conventions was basically don't do what the canadines did XD

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I don't fault Truman for dropping the nuclear bomb. The US-Japanese War was one of the most brutal wars in all of human history – kamikaze pilots, suicide, unbelievable. What one can criticize is that the human race prior to that time – and today – has not really grappled with what are, I'll call it, "the rules of war." Was there a rule then that said you shouldn't bomb, shouldn't kill, shouldn't burn to death 100,000 civilians in one night?

LeMay said, "If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals." And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

~Robert McNamara

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That's right.

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One side will actually prosecute the criminals in their army.

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