eceppda

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   by eceppda 10y ago

   Any time you see an article discrediting China from the Western press, like this one, try this: Replace the text "China", with "US". What's remarkable is that the story rarely changes. Every undemocratic, evil-doing
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   by eceppda 10y ago

   Iraq II re-destroyed Baghdad and destroyed the city center Falluja. An estimated 655,000 civilians were dead by 2006 and another 2,000,000 displaced. The standard procedure of targeting civilians is still the central strategy.
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   by eceppda 10y ago

   http://apjjf.org/-Mark-Selden/1943/article.html Here is an excellent analysis of American high school textbooks and their handling of the war with Japan. It's pretty clear that Americans do in fact censure wh
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   by eceppda 10y ago

   The US started targeting defenseless civilians in Japan via fire bombing, and the majority of the Japan's cities had already been destroyed by the time they deployed the atomic bombs. The attacks on civilians in Japan were the first ex
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   by eceppda 11y ago

   I had the same interpretation. I noted that he still (understandably) doesn't forgive the Japanese, but that could be entirely separate from the decision to use atomic weapons against civilians.