I said it was ridiculous to say we are “just as bad” as the Nazis or Imperial Japanese for doing it.

Really? The firebombing of tokyo (first time that napalm was used) killed more people than Nagasaki or Hiroshima, about 100,000, mostly civilians.

We dropped white phosphorus (whiskey pete) in Falluja, kills everything in its path in the most horrific ways, women, kids, combatants, civilians, anything. And we have left tons, literally, of depleted uranium sprayed all over Iraq which will pollute there for a century.

We are not angels. We are just the “good guys” so when we do it, it’s always for a good cause, right?

The U.S. has done as equally effed up things as any other country on earth during its history. We killed just as many slaves, indians and mexicans as any other colonial empire and have our little shames as well.

You can’t really get into too much relativism for state sanctioned killing, because every state says, in their time, in their frame of reference, they were justified in doing what they did.