12-15-2008, 03:25 PM
Most conscious people, now or then, recognized Germany and Japan as viable threats to the U.S. Please show how you feel they weren't before you assert that what the innocent who died in WWII were in the end victims of the Allies' actions.
Including Vietnam in your list is curious, since far fewer Americans believed we should have been at war there.
The larger question, and I'll ask it again, is how can current or recent actions be justified, or criticism be limited, on the basis of "oh, that's just what we Americans do?" That's some truly curious reasoning, like what kids use. "But the other kids did it, so why come down on meee!!!"
Including Vietnam in your list is curious, since far fewer Americans believed we should have been at war there.
The larger question, and I'll ask it again, is how can current or recent actions be justified, or criticism be limited, on the basis of "oh, that's just what we Americans do?" That's some truly curious reasoning, like what kids use. "But the other kids did it, so why come down on meee!!!"