** 04-Jun-2023 World View: America vs Russia and China
JCP wrote: ↑Sun Jun 04, 2023 7:59 pm
Kavkaz' s family was not murdered by
Americans. They were murdered by
Russians. This is obviously personally
to him (or her).
It is Russia that is grinding up Ukraine
right now. The Russians are raping,
torturing, looting, and killing
Ukrainians , displacing millions, and
destroying Ukraine's infrastructure. I
support Ukraine in the face of such
brutality.
I never supported the invasion of Iraq
or Afghanistan. Bush should be in jail
along with his cronies for all the
atrocities that went one everywhere. The
loss of freedom after 9/11 (along with
legalized torture) has destroyed us. I
have never defended (and will never)
G. W. Bush.
You seem to think that war crimes are
excusable because 'everyone is doing
it'. No, it is not OK. Remember the
lesson of Lot. Even if everyone around
you is evil, you can always choose to be
good. Maybe you should think about that.
If a terrorist with a gun is killing
innocent civilians, and if a policeman
shoots and kills the terrorist to
prevent further loss of life, then the
policeman is not a murderer.
Since WW II, America has been "Policeman
of the World." When America invaded
Iraq and Afghanistan, the objective was
to prevent further terrorist violence by
the leaders of Iraq and Afghanistan,
respectively. You can disagree with the
details of the policies, but the motives
were pure, and the actions were not war
crimes.
When Iraq invaded Kuwait, when Russia
invaded Ukraine, when Hitler invaded
Austria and Russia, if China invades
Taiwan, the motives were/are far from
pure. The motives were/are to annex the
land being invaded, and to kill off the
existing population. This is
dramatically different from America's
motives, and violence in those cases
clearly constitutes war crimes.