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Originally Posted by Mark B
NBC article on the 9-month battle to drive ISIS out of Mosul Iraq in 2017:
NBC News - Liberating Mosul
International Committee of the Red Cross article:
Battle of Mosul Case Study
Bullet points (B) [5] and (B) [9] from the above case study:
"[5] The furor over the March 17 American airstrike that led to the collapse of a building in western Mosul, killing scores if not hundreds of Iraqi civilians, as well as Defense Department allegations that Islamic State fighters deliberately placed the civilians in harm’s way, have caused a change in American tactics. “It has caused some adjustments to our procedures,” Colonel Scrocca said, though he declined to say what specific changes had been made."
"[9] General Votel described the decision to let “on-scene commanders” call in airstrikes as a return to the standard doctrine of the United States for conducting urban warfare. He said the new procedures did not weaken protections for civilians."
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Y'know Mark...the way I'm seeing this is...
We are having this reaction to the IDF response to terrorism because its Jews defending themselves. When its Americans defending themselves the Japs deserved having nuclear weapons dropped on two cities that had no military installations. And the pilots and crews of the two B-29's that dropped "little.boy" and "fat man" are heroes. Or maybe they were they good little nazis who were just following orders.
Allied war crimes during WWII
Anyone who runs, is VC. Anyone who stands still, is well-disciplined VC.
Yeah sure, Americans hold some kind of moral high ground.