War crimes of the west

[vorlon13]

Digressing for a moment, the concept of 'war crime' seems bizarre, from a detached or even 'alien' point of view.

The whole point of bothering with a war is 'victory' (Pyrrhic ones included, but they are never intended) and the concept of 'tying your hands' prior to the onset implies a willingness to perhaps lose which means that mebbee the reasons for going to the war in the first place aren't that convincing, even to the proponents.

The US has been in a bunch of wars of late, but since Grenada, have any of them resulted in the US conquering anybody ??

If conquest isn't the fucking goal, maybe sit that one out?

[WinterHold]

Still, I don't think anyone is suffering from the delusion that the west is perfect, just a million times better than anything else that most of the rest of the world has managed to produce (in terms of personal, political and indeed religious freedoms).

I don't know anyone in the west who would genuinely wish to live somewhere else in the world where they would have less freedoms than they have now.

Edit: sorry I've fixed your image above and it made me chuckle.

The thing that makes me object, is that the west got its peace of mind through messing up the countries of others. All backward dictators -across the Middle East- are supported by western countries; Saudi Arabia is one example. 

Thanks for fixing the tags

Brian37 (from post #13 and up we go)

 Throughout the Middle East, the natives have an acceptance issue. The culture is so rough, the more you dwell into the Arabian peninsula the more that this roughness increase; thankfully I grew up with lots of bruises, but I don't want to inflict pain on others, neither do I want to see people suppressed because of their faith.

That roughness though, crawled and found its way into religion; Sunni/Shia Islam are the "holly protection" that cover and shield the rough Middle Eastern culture, abusing others became a religion.

I began to understand that a lot of bigotry do come from religious people. I cannot deny that. Christians, Jews, Sunni Muslims, Shia Twelvers, does it matter? actually it's the same smell, same bigotry, same insults, same insanity. 

Yes and no. Yes there is lots to be angry at bigots for, and every war America has been involved in since WW2 has been a stalemate and quagmire that really ends up doing nothing but wasting money and getting civilians and soldiers needlessly killed.

But it still does not justify the horrible interpretations of the Quran and Hadiths that have even Sunni's and Shiites killing each other.Two wrongs don't make a right, and again, between the east and the west, the west is still a much more open society with many more protections of minorities and free speech. No we are NOT perfect, but we also are not run on one sect of one religion.

It doesn't justify it; you are right.
What I'm trying to do in this forum, is to open people's eyes to the bigotry of both parties.

I suffered a lot from Sunnies/Wahhabies. I lost a lot. I'm young, but don't think I lived a normal "teenage" life or even a "normal childhood". But my torturer's had western protection at all times, if I ever revolt I get burned, the hand is Arabic, but the spear is western. So I ended up looking down upon both.

Sunnies & Shia -especially twelver shia- must be exposed. The bad folks in the west would never have had all this influence in the M.E, without the support and acceptance of the NATIVE BIGOTS.

Never did the mistake of one party, justify the atrocities of another.

MrNoMorePropaganda

Add the racism of "Levant Arabs" against dark skinned people to the list, actually Syrians, Lebanese and Palistinians -and truth be told- are one of the most racist societies against dark skinned people.

I t hink Atlas has every right to be angry. But this forum is the wrong place to vent that angry. Most people here are very educated on the issues and already know how bad, and hypocritical, the West, particularly the United States can be.

I do invest my time here, because many people here "ACTUALLY" think and read what is written;  I do have a theory though, that the more we become distant from Islam, the more our world becomes a mess. I think it worth a display in front of critics.

robvalue

It makes me sleep at night, sometimes I feel isolated. 
Thinking that there are different people is something I must learn to practice, even if it was so hard.

Rhythm 

But the irony is that the Quran is truly the key to solve all humanity's social, psychological & political problems .


vorlon13

Conquest did happen and take place; but the rules of the game changed and nobody "occupies" land with infantry anymore. It's the age of capitalism, the wars America took were always economical, the real invasion was economical; thus virtual; thus it's so rare to find people who actually see it..

The type of conquest that makes a useless piece of paper ($) to dominate all currencies.

[ReptilianPeon]

I'll admit there are some crazy characters here, though not many, that do need educating on how the West has negatively influenced Arabia. But I won't name names as there is a degree of subjectivity involved. The video of George W. Bush kissing Saudi royalty is so telling. They allow al-Saud to spread their hate precisely because they have such a blinding hatred of such things as Socialism and Communism, and to keep secular Arab governments in check. They want to subvert Syria to make Russia and Iran weaker and will stop at nothing.

[Cato]

ISIS is using birth control on captured sex slaves because if they get pregnant they will no longer be eligible for sanctioned rape. You cAn drop the 'Islam is superior schtick anytime now.

For what it's worth, Dressden, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki were not war crimes.

[Jackie]

[Jackie]

[Gawdzilla]

Regarding the use of atomic bombs against Japan:

Both cities were the military capitals of their prefects. Hiroshima had nearly 90,000 soldiers in the city. The Minister of War had declared that all adult or nearly adult Japanese were soldiers, militarizing most of the population of each city. Both cities were centers of war material production.

And it was at Hiroshima Bay that Yamamoto anchored his flagship, Nagato, and waited for the results of his pet project, the raid on Pearl Harbor. Kismet this!

[Jackie]

Regarding the use of atomic bombs against Japan:

Both cities were the military capitals of their prefects. Hiroshima had nearly 90,000 soldiers in the city. The Minister of War had declared that all adult or nearly adult Japanese were soldiers, militarizing most of the population of each city. Both cities were centers of war material production.

And it was at Hiroshima Bay that Yamamoto anchored his flagship, Nagato, and waited for the results of his pet project, the raid on Pearl Harbor. Kismet this!

My X wife is Japanese, her now deceased grandfather served for Japan in WW2. And again, what we did with those bombings sucked and we did murder our fellow human beings. There still are lives behind our enemies. But even having said that, Japan still is embarrassed by their shacking up with Hitler. And while it was horrible, it did shorten the war, and it was also used as a message to the Soviet Union to say "Hey look what we have", which was part of it.

It still remains that humans are tribal and tribalism is local. I think the more humans understand this and the more we understand we are NOT a separate species the more we can reduce conflicts.

War is hell so if humans want to avoid it it is vital to understand we are not a separate species.

[Anomalocaris]

ISIS is using birth control on captured sex slaves because if they get pregnant they will no longer be eligible for sanctioned rape. You cAn drop the 'Islam is superior schtick anytime now.

For what it's worth, Dressden, Hiroshima, and  Nagasaki were not war crimes.

Killing enemy civilians for the primary purpose of sending a message not to the enemy, but to one's alleged friend, as in the mostly the case of Dresden, is in my opinion morally so far into the cynical war criminal territory that legal definition of war crime hasn't caught up to include it yet.

[Cato]

Those throwing around the term war crimes related to WWII action should google the dates the Geneva Convention was held. We can of course debate the morality of the same until the cows come home, but knock off the war crimes bit.