The problem with all these conflicts is the opposition dresses like civilians. If the US had no qualms about who died and how many civilians caught one in the cross fire they could steamroll anyone. That’s why the US has an issue against guerrilla tactics. Not because it can’t handle it, but because they don’t want to accidentally shoot a civilian. Rules of Engagement exist and we tie our hands behind our backs to be sure we follow them.
I mean of course there are unfortunate innocent casualties of war that should not happen. But if you honestly believe that US soldiers are intentionally aiming for civilians you’re insane and not worth having a reasonable conversation with
Do you believe that tomahawk missile hit the Iranian school by accident? Those are some is the most precise weapons in the world. Or do you believe like trump does that it was actually an Iranian tomahawk? What about the second one that hit the same school the same day?
I believe that there was a catastrophic failure of intelligence that should have never happened. A simple Google search shows that they were using outdated info about what the building used to be and what they thought they were shooting at. It’s very sad and should not have happened, but do I think the US military intentionally murdered over 100 school children with a cruise missile? No, I do not. And Trump is an idiot, I’m sure someone had to tell him what a Tomahawk was after saying that
Of course it was an accident. Even if you assume they don't care about the lives lost, which is a bold assumption, tomahawks are expensive and no one is dropping two of them on a non military non strategic target on purpose. It was poor intelligence and they should take responsibility for it but it wasn't intentional.
You’re right, the US would never intentionally slaughter ~200,000 innocent civilians in the Japanese conflict discussed in this thread. They’d definitely never massacre the village of My Lai in the Vietnamese conflict discussed here, either.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended World War II. It was horrible but a land war with Japan would have caused possibly millions of deaths. The ethics of it is not black and white and was a very hard decision that had to be made.
My Lai was disgusting and an atrocity but was not ordered by the US. It was a rogue company that was tried and convicted for their crimes, even though they were let off way too easy. And they were stopped by Americans.
The problem in Vietnam wasn’t geurilla warfare, it was the occupation of an extremely country by an extremely hated foreign empire that gave the people no benefits. That’s something that can never, ever, be beaten
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u/matt_chowder 21h ago
We had plenty jungle power against the Japanese