To be honest killing civilians in mass numbers was always going to happen when we entered total war.
Not to excuse how much it sucked, just I don’t think it was exceptionally evil because 100% of countries who fine themselves in total war like the us was, does the same thing.
Not to say the us didnt and isn’t committing tons of war crimes or crimes against humanity, just I dont think bombing civilians was was exceptionally evil so much as the logical conclusion of total war.
Though its possible I’ve listened to too many history podcasts
Sure, I don’t think bombing Dresden is the moral equivalent of running a death camp for various reasons. But we do have to recognize that there’s a bit of fine hairsplitting you have to make some acts of war acceptable and others crimes.
We absolutely should have stayed out of WW1. Wilson ran for re-election on keeping us out. Then he got us into it(with the help of many others). The 1917 Espionage Act(now being used against Snowden and maybe? Reality Winner) was used to stifle dissent. Eugene Debs was imprisoned for making a speech where he simply told the truth.
"The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose — especially their lives.
They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people."
He let him off the hook on healthcare there. Trump filibustered and bullshitted the whole thing. Random woman from Wyomissing had the guts to cut him off and say “Let me finish sir,” and Stephanopoulos ultimately got steamrolled.
