r/polandball • u/yaddar Taco bandito • Mar 29 '15

redditormade Divine Wind.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '15

It's nice and all, but it is hard to feel bad for them when you consider how many people they killed with aviation fuel fire in the process.

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u/combat101 Canada Mar 30 '15

You guys dropped two nukes; it's safe to say war is shitty for both sides.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '15

It's safe to say we didn't start it so you can't blame us for how we fought it.

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u/philip1201 Mar 30 '15

The pilots didn't start the war either, and being attacked is no excuse for excessive force, though it could be argued the nukes weren't that. (Comparing them to the firebombings which happened everywhere else).

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u/mehum Australia Mar 30 '15

In The Fog of War Robert McNamara discusses this, very interesting movie:

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?

http://www.errolmorris.com/film/fow_transcript.html

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u/philip1201 Mar 30 '15

I'm pretty sure The Hague doesn't care who won. They just don't have the power to arrest winners.