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If the US military was unethical, it wouldn't have lost in Afghanistan. The problem is fighting unethical enemies, because they do shit like use ambulances as
by WarmWash 23d ago
If the US military was unethical, it wouldn't have lost in Afghanistan.
The problem is fighting unethical enemies, because they do shit like use ambulances as troop transport, have soldiers dress the same as civilians, and given any kid old enough to shoot a rifle.
To your post more specifically, is there is no one holding these unethical enemies responsible. There are no history books, or journalists, or wikipedia articles about the insane shit they do.
The Taliban has a base where they truck in young boys to "service" the officers and it's lost to time. The US has a single ethics catastrophe, and they are held up for it for decades...
- surgical_fire 23d ago> If the US military was unethical, it wouldn't have lost in Afghanistan You can be unethical and still profoundly incompetent.
- WarmWash 23d agoSmoking out villages and shooting everything that moves with cutting edge weaponry doesn't require much competence.
- text0404 23d agoWhich is why the US famously won the Vietnam war...
- WarmWash 23d agoIf that was the case the My Lai Massacre would be meaningless, because the entire war would have been that.
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- nulld3v 23d agoGenocide is usually not an efficient way to wage war. Even ancient armies usually did not slaughter entire towns, not because of ethics, but because fighting sucks and if you slaughter everybody you come across, nobody is going to surrender and every person you come across will fight you to the death. I say usually, because there are some exceptions and nukes are one of them, they make genocide a viable war strategy. But even nuking Vietnam would not have worked, cause you will simply get nuked back.
- WarmWash 23d agoIts more that you make it clear that you will kill anyone who doesn't surrender. Then most people end up surrendering. In modern militaries though, the expectation is that you will just leave civilians alone.
- surgical_fire 22d agoThere are some terrorist states that indiscriminately kill civilians though, such as Israel and the USA. The worst thing people would do is surrendering in those cases.
- twirldat 22d agoAs opposed to who? Iran fired missiles at Israeli (and Arab) civilian areas, so did Hezbollah and Hamas when they used to have that capability.
- surgical_fire 22d agoThat's precisely what I expected. That people would pop up defending US atrocities by equating them with the likes of Hamas and Hezbollah. And you know what? You're right. Those are all terrorist organizations.
- hndweller1337 21d ago>account created 1 hour ago Nice. https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-information https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-inf...
- jackie293746 23d agoThe entire war was that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange
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