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The concept of collateral damage is a very modern idea

Posted on: February 5, 2017 at 09:29:16 CT
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and completely absurd. To pretend that civilians are not part of a war effort is crazy. Without the military equipment and logistical support coming out of cities like Nagasaki and Hiroshima the Japanese military would have been unable to fight the war.

When you declare war, back when we actually declared them, you do so against a country not just the military. Even in toltarian and fascist states the military requires the support of the civilian population. That makes those civilian populations valid military targets.
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     was mass murder worth it? - pickle MU - 2/5 09:39:03
          War IS mass murder dipshlt! (nm) - DHighlander KC - 2/5 09:50:46
               Not so fast. You may argue that the aggressor in - hokie VT - 2/5 11:27:09
                    Truman was a mass murderer (nm) - pickle MU - 2/5 12:23:40
     The concept of collateral damage is a very modern idea - DHighlander KC - 2/5 09:29:16
          wow - pickle MU - 2/5 09:39:48
               War is by definition immoral. The only way to fight a moral - DHighlander KC - 2/5 09:57:33
                    "war by definition is immoral." - pickle MU - 2/5 10:01:19
                         I assume it is to someone with no ability to think criticall - DHighlander KC - 2/5 10:09:46
          Not quite true, as to it being contemporary. In the - GA Tiger MU - 2/5 09:39:42
               Because those attacks were not seen to have any military - DHighlander KC - 2/5 09:55:02
               RE: Not quite true, as to it being contemporary. In the - sarasotatiger MU - 2/5 09:46:24
          So was the WTC then a "valid target"?(nm) - raskolnikov MU - 2/5 09:37:23
               Yes, but it also showed their misunderstanding of American - DHighlander KC - 2/5 09:50:03
                    BULLSHT - raskolnikov MU - 2/5 10:17:19
                         So you believe their plan was to kill a couple of thousand - DHighlander KC - 2/5 10:41:47
                              RE: So you believe their plan was to kill a couple of thousand - raskolnikov MU - 2/5 12:35:14
          Agree. You're pretty smart for a teacher. :) I was - hokie VT - 2/5 09:36:59
               considering the fact that WWII was shorter than Vietnam - DHighlander KC - 2/5 10:02:47




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