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?
i will point out that many allied countries were bombed to shit by the nazis, my hometown was not in any way a military or industrial target after the first year of the war, but was pretty much flattened
americans tend to forget that, what with them being safe across the ocean
this is of course in reference to dresden, the nuclear bombs have no fucking justification at all