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?

  • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    (I think someone quoted him in this thread)

    They cite it as McNamara, but McNamara is actually quoting notorious lizardman Curtis LeMay

    and here's another of LeMay's quotes:

    “There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders.” -- Curtis LeMay