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To: zonder who wrote (2597)	12/12/2002 1:59:51 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3959

There can be no excuse for genocide, even if you cook up some theory of how the future would have been worse if you did not perform it. It wasn't genocide. gen·o·cide Pronunciation Key (jn-sd) n. The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group. dictionary.reference.com Tim

To: zonder who wrote (2597)	12/12/2002 2:00:34 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 3959

"not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly." " So if it was not against any convention we have agreed to follow, and if it was militarily necessary (which in practice means "of great military benefit" not "you would lose the war if you don't do it") it isn't a war crime by your own definition. Tim

To: zonder who wrote (2597)	12/13/2002 8:13:53 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3959

I notice phrases like "not justified by military necessity" and "undefended towns.." in the definition. So the laws you've cited don't actually contain a blanket ban against attacking a city ever which is what I think you're trying to get at. The idea that invading the Japanese home islands would have caused many more casualties than the atomic bombs is a reasonable conclusion drawn from the facts known at the time. The US had a lot of experience invading Japanese held territory at the time. I think the invasion of Okinawa cost around a quarter of a million lives, most of them Japanese. Avoiding large scale repeats of that was a worthy goal. I would repeat that in life one sometimes faces a choice between the lesser of evils. Refusal to choose the lesser of evils may well allow fate or other parties to make the choice of the greater evil for you.