Reply #9: Previous wars didn't have the atrocities on the scale of vietnam? [View All]

[Mythsaje]

You're kidding, right?

Look up the 30 Years War. They had mercenary "armies" tromping all over Europe raping, burning, and killing all in the name of the conflict between Catholic and Protestant.

War IS an atrocity. It's always been that way.

In WWI they used gases that were later banned because they were so nasty.

The argument can be made that the seed for WWII was created in the aftermath of WWI when the war reparations broke the German economy and gave Hitler the opportunity to rise to power promising to restore Germany to greatness.

We NUKED Japan. Twice. When it can be argued that we didn't even NEED to.