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Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo
Still, let me play devils advocate for a moment. Using your logic, the death of "300,000" people is "murder". While I admit its a tragedy, let us look at history. In WW2, German civilian deaths were between 600,000 and 700,000 dead, about double that wounded, and 7.5 Million made homeless. So using your arguement, the leaders of the Allies were all murderers. They should have never acted to preserve the peace, remove a psychopathic tyrant and save the known world from being killed if not of "good German stock". Perhaps you'd like to be speaking German now?
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This is just postwar theory. I highly doubt that Hitler had any real interest in Germanisizing the world in a literal sense. And yes all sides of that horrible conflict were murderers. Murder is the price you pay for committing warfare on your enemy if civilian lives are lost or if you kill captured soldiers. Guess what, we all did it. Civilians were brutalized and yup we all did it. This is war and its never pretty!
But there comes a point to where you have to say Hmmm is it really worth it? In this case my opinion, and I realize it is just that an opinion is that No it was not worth it, Not then and not now.
My views on war are simplistic, Avoid war at all costs and if you fail on that then take Pattons advice and destroy them, Use there guts to lube the wheels on your tanks.
We didn't follow the first part of that equation, In fact that is the first time In this century that the US didn't react to war but was pro active in starting it, Maybe that's why its so sour.