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Should those crimes be excused just because someone else racked up a higher body count?

• navigator01 9y ago
  They should be understood in context. The US was engaged in a war against dictatorial USSR style communism for nearly 50 years. History has shown the US to be on the right side of that conflict. Is people being killed ever a good thing? Almost never. Human life is inherently valuable. But is it at least more understandable when it is done in the name of trying to rid the world of a dangerous and destructive ideology? Yes it is.
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  • wu-ikkyu 9y ago
    >History has shown the US to be on the right side of that conflict. That depends on who wrote the history book you're reading. By the accounts of the millions of innocents slaughtered by both sides, neither side was in "the right".
  • Can_Not 9y ago
    > But is it at least more understandable when it is done in the name of trying to rid the world of a dangerous and destructive ideology This is factually wrong, the cold war was about imperialism and spheres of influence. The US was tearing down democracies and propping up dictators left and right to counter the Soviet Union.
• jerf 9y ago
  Of course not. But I'd feel a lot better about saying that if I didn't expect that this isn't just a rhetorical gateway to turn around and ignore the high-body count crimes in favor of the politically-fashionable ones again, since "of course not" is the only dialectal response possible.