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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
Since when? Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, My Lai? As far as I know, this is the only thing they can do really well  |
well you have to admit it's a step above Russia where you kill your own people.
the atomic bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki ended the largest and most tragic war in the history of mankind and the US really didn't have to enter the European theater - by doing so it saved hundreds of thousands of Russian lives, and the same for the atomic bombs which saved untold numbers of Red Army soldiers lives.
moral equivalence arguments are almost always used by people with more blood on their hands than those they are accusing.
your examples are all terrible - My Lai was a horrific mass murder by rogue American soldiers, they weren't ordered to do it, they were tried for their crimes. That wouldn't happen in Russia, nobody in Russia would ever have even found out the names of the soldiers responsible.
The US does make mistakes in the fights it chooses, and yes there are some very unethical corporations and politicians who profit from those mistakes - and journalists and citizens call them out loudly on it when it happens. America sure isn't perfect but it's core beliefs remain the same, democracy,freedom, progress, prosperity- if the US was such a monster why do they leave Canada alone, a country filled with natural resources which has a very small military. The US allies itself with countries who share similar values.