Shootings in Paris

[Something Blue]

How many melted 5 year olds who died an agonising death in a flattened wasteland were responsible for murder?

Not as many as would have been, if that regime had been allowed to fester. ffs.

[jon1959]

How many melted 5 year olds who died an agonising death in a flattened wasteland were responsible for murder?

Not as many as would have been, if that regime had been allowed to fester. ffs.

ffs indeed.

You and Silures seem happy to conflate the innocent victims of American bombs with the brutal military regime that ran the state where they happened to live. You can argue that bombing civilians produces terror and reduces morale to the point where a political objective is achieved (surrender) but I will not accept that the victims deserved their fate. They didn't murder Chinese children. I don't understand how people can approve of collective punishment based on race or nationality on the grounds that it is deserved or some type of justice. A pragmatic 'lesser of two evils' argument maybe, but not that.