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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
Nixon is one of the worst examples in history you could have picked for a leader favouring precision bombing of military targets. Civilian deaths under Nixon were far from just the result of dumb bombs missing their targets. People in Laos and Cambodia are still being blown up to this day by cluster bombs Nixon had dropped on those countries. Between him and Johnson Laos is the most bombed country in history, largely using cluster bombs and with untold volumes of civilian suffering.
Edit: Just to clarify, I'm not posting this as an argument of which side's history of war is worse or whose suffering has been worse at whose hands. I am strongly anti-war regardless of the aggressor. War is mostly the dehumanizing suffering of normal people caused by struggles for power between those far removed from their lives. It's horrific, and I understand being angry about it. War itself is the enemy. It is always full of 'collateral damage'.
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Yeah, I'll never understand people who try to prop the West up as examples of sparing civilians when there's tons of examples of the opposite. The Laos example is an excellent one as they are still slowly looking for and detonating mines left in their country where civilians live. One of my ex's family was from Laos and hearing the stories from her grandparents about the West and the things they did and how they left their homeland is heartbreaking. Every country has done terrible, terrible things during war.