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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
PS- You need to brush up on your history. The Japanese murdered and enslaved hundreds of thousands of civilians all over South East Asia in particular the rape of Nanking stands out. The Americans firebombed and nuked Japanese cities and decimated German cities. The Germans slaughtered and enslaved thousands of Slavs, Russians and Jews. All of these were targeted at civilians.
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Hey, Ronin, you left out the Japanese/Korean/Chinese conflicts. But you are right. Rarely are civilian atrocities not part of armed conflict. America is one of the few countries in the world where that side effect of war has been somewhat limited. But rarely are most "civilians" actually not contributing to their country's war effort - though sometimes it is against their will.