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Originally Posted by Enkidu22
And many (if not most) of those revisionists call american politics mass murderers for bombing civilian targets and burning cities to the ground just to scare japanese and german citizens. Seriously german and japanese commanders were trialed and sentenced for things like shooting few civilians, even thou many were ordered and often forced to do so, but american politics were (and still are) praised for their actions.
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If you really want to bring it up, both the German and Japanese militaries were engaged in torture and killing of prisoners and, as you said, civilians. The Japanese governement has apologized more than once for the many atrocities the Japanse military was a part of. It wasn't just "shooting a few civilians" (which is still wrong, and you do get to go to trial for it.) I do not think Americans are "praised" for fire-bombing Tokyo and the unfortunate loss of innocent life.