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Have to have individual responsibility for actions of combatants. Hard to say - did anybody on the ground do something because HK told them to? If not, then, no
by JoeAltmaier 3y ago
Have to have individual responsibility for actions of combatants. Hard to say - did anybody on the ground do something because HK told them to? If not, then, no.
Hey, just reiterating the common international definition. You want to slang somebody by using the wrong term, go ahead. But it doesn't aid in understanding the facts.
- DevX101 3y agoThere are certainly at a minimum tens, if not hundreds of thousands of Cambodians, Laotians, Vietnamese civilians who's deaths are a direct consequence of Kissinger explicitly calling for more bombing. As in, were there a more judicious Sec. of State in place at the time of war, more civilians and their descendants would be alive today. I won't place the Vietnam war as his sole responsibility. But he alone made several decisions around scope of the war that directly killed civilians.
- JoeAltmaier 3y agoAll true. All outside the definition of 'war criminal'? Just noting here, that that term has an actual definition. Probably it isn't met in this case.