I'm really pleased of your post ANZAC, i was just about to loose my faith.

It's very sad that, 60 years after the facts, people either :

- are not able to call a war crime when the see one,

- try to hide themselves behind other countries' crimes (they have no reasons to feel guilty,they claim,but still they look for crappy excuses...), please, leave the "he's the one who started acting dirty" debate at the schoolyard where it belongs.

- feel like admitting a war crime will make the country in question into the kingdom of evil, always wrong and always on the bad side whatever it had or will do in history.

Gents, did the nuking of Japan made the USA of these dark years an hegemonic country, trying to wage war all around the world by starting WWII, causing mass destruction because it was mainly populated by serial killers ?

Did the nuking of Japan erases the fact USA fought against one of the most ugly and dangerous ideology mankind has ever known and gave so many lives for other people's freedom ?

Is it too subtle to understand, for example, that a war crime can be judged under the circumstances and context of the times (I mean it's not the same as if USA opened war by nuking Japan just like Japan bombed Pearl Harbor ?) or that we can doubt they had a clear picture of the nuke effects in the long run ?

Gents, please, don't aim at civilians, and if you do because war is hell, don't pretend it's OK to do so.

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