Re: who really started ww2 in the pacific?

Marlock wrote:

The Nanking was a horrible attrocity.

Yup.

But horrible attrocities
are means of almost every great power since, well, since we
record history.

Nope. They'd fallen out of fashion in the West. The bombardment of
Metz was considered bad in the Franco-Prussian War, and even the
horrors of WWI didn't include any atrocities like Nanking.

Therefore, no matter how horrible that was, it wasn't worse
then, e.g., the dropping of two nuclear bombs over civilan targets.

In that case, I have some good news for you.

Nobody ever dropped nukes on civilian targets.

The presence of civilians in military zones is not the problem
of the attacking forces in military law, but the problem of
the defending forces. If this were done the other way, it would
be legal to defend military targets by surrounding them with
civilians.

Nobody has atacked the US for that...

Plenty of people have blamed the US, but they were in response
to attacks on the US.

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