@Imperious:
I didn’t miss the point, I made my own. That being, everyone is free (including you and KG) to rate the belligerent countries’ crimes as they would, but they should acknowledge that all belligerents did commit crimes against the various civilians of the time.
By your argument, Germany’s USW is a basic measure of a civilized people. Remember, Britain and France were aggressors against Germany; Hitler didn’t want war with them. I think it lies on equal footing of civilian murder as the Allied food blockade.
The first point does not mean both sides are somehow equal to guilt. Exterminating people for no reason is not the same as during wartime blockading the enemy ports so he can’t conduct international trade. It’s like saying the US blockade against North Korea/ Iran is the same as murdering people on meat hooks. Who reasons like this?
Who reasons like this? Nobody, that’s who.
I’m super confused where you’re drawing these conclusions from. I said nothing that they are equal guilt, just that I think they both have guilt.
It’s like one person robs a store and another murders a person. I’m saying don’t skip apprehending the thief just because the other guy committed murder, not that they should get the same sentence!
@Imperious:
Second, that is not what i said1. Exterminating people is not a basic necessity during war, US did no such thing. USW and economic blockade ARE acceptable outcomes during war2. ANY argument that attempts to justify mass extermination of people during war is just an excuse. Freaking Nazis spent more resources killing people and should have been used to fight in Russia. It took space that could have moved materiel to the eastern front and saved German lives, but was wasted transporting people to their deaths. Your arguments hold air.
1. Pronoun game. Please elaborate (quote preferably) what I said you said that you didn’t.
2. You did just say again that you think USW is an acceptable outcome (== a basic measure of civilized people at war). Mass murder is not, but I never said it was (or that you said it was). I’m not trying the impossible task of justifying mass extermination. I’m saying the Allies weren’t as spectacularly clean as they are sometimes depicted, just because they had the very just goal of wiping out Hitler’s evil. The arguments you pretend I make hold air.