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?

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      I was just saying that it's been retroactively justified this way by people I've actually spoken to, I don't agree with it but :shrug-outta-hecks:

      I guess I should have said "made a case for" idk I was just remembering a huge struggle session in the discord about it where someone made this case to me.