Wednesday, April 14, 2010
War Crimes
It is not always easy to identify a war crime or a war criminal. However, when we do, I find it interesting that we are always trying to justify this action. No matter what happens, if someone commits a war crime, they always justify it by saying it was in aid of their country or it was going to help finish the war. Whether or not that is true, it is still a war crime the people who commit them, at some point, must pay for their actions. I'm talking about all countries, the U.S. included. The bombardiers who dropped the bomb on Hiroshima themselves are war criminals. They dropped the bomb, committed the crime, and killed many people that day. The same goes for the Japanese in the Rape of Nanking. Every single one of those Japanese soldiers are war criminals for their actions. They committed heinous crimes again humanity.
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I agree with your general belief about war crimes but i think that war crimes are different in the eyes of different people. Since im about 99.9999999% sure that you have completed the campaign in call of duty modern warfare 2, you may have heard the quote "history is written by the victor." Basically, whoever wins is right.
ReplyDeleteWhile many people in the US might think of the Japanese who participated in the Rape of Nanking are terrible war criminals, some people from Japan at the time probably viewed them as heroes. Personally, i think it is important to consider war crimes from an outside perspective. Anyone who was effected by a war crime will have a very strongly influenced opinion about the event, while an outsider will be able to have an unaffected view about what actually happened.