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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
I fail to see the logic. You're presuming their innocence because they had no choice. I'm NOT presuming their guilt just saying that as military they were legitimate targets
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I am saying it is a sort of unique situation because they had not choice to be military or not, so that gives them another layer of innocence that some militants would not have who joined a cause by choice.
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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
You're taking this way too seriously.
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You can't tell me I am taking it too seriously when you respond to every point with the same level of detail that I do.
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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
Star Wars is a work of fiction. Whatever is presented in the movies or considered lore via the many books and video games considered canon is the way it was as was intended by George Lucas and the various minds that helped build this fictional universe. You can't just make up conspiracies.
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I am not making up conspiracies. However, canon shouldn't be contradictory.
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I have no problem with that. Being subject to propaganda is not an excuse for committing atrocities though and does not make you innocent by default.
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When did I say anyone was innocent by default? I am saying they were using the information that was given to them at the time.
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If it's considered canon by Lucas then what's the problem?
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It contradicts itself.
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Originally Posted by dogsbody70
The point is: Had the Americans citizens known what it was like to be bombed as happened elsewhere.
Pearl Harbour was an easy target-- but were towns cities etc ever actually bombed? America woke up when the twin towers were attacked. that has led to invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. Bush was too eager to kill the terrorists. Brought UK into it against advice from the UN. we were told a pack of lies re WMD's. Many Brits did Not wish to go to war in Iraq or Afghanistan.
surely the question was: why was there an attack on twin towers? Obviously the attackers were not too happy with American Politics So many innocent lives were lost that day and SINCE------- with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Maybe this should go on another thread.
I still cannot fathom why you are using star wars as an example on this subject.
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Are you saying the American forces would have acted differently if America had been bombed by A-bombs on American soil before dropping the A-bombs?
Who knows? No one can answer that question.
Knowing what we know now, would America have made the same choice to drop the A-bombs on Japan?
Who knows? No one can answer that question.
This thread isn't about Iraq and Afghanistan, so I am not going to go there here.