Laos and Cambodia weren't participants in the war but that doesn't really feel like it matters all that much. Whenever I talk about the bombings of Cambodia and Laos with Americans (who - liberals and conservatives alike feel they must always defend) I sometimes here "well we bombed cities in Germany and Japan in WW2 and no one talks about those being war crimes". But were they? I really don't know much about those bombings. My gut says yes they were also war crimes but we just accept them because they were combatant countries?
Bombing Axis civilians was OK because we did it.
When Axis countries bombed civilians it was unforgivable war crimes.
When the US government does it, it's OK, when others do it, it's not OK. Simple & easy. Remember this going forward, you're going to see it happen often.
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