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A comment on Miyazaki's Beautiful Anti-War Dreams. Parent comment

Re:Miyazaki's Beautiful Anti-War Dreams by thisrod on Monday August 10, 2015 @08:52PM (#10038482)
Let's not forget the context in which poor and unsophisticated people decided that was a good idea, and the names of the international aggressors whose crimes encompass the evil of the whole conflict:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Freedom_Deal

Do you think that President Kennedy was an evil man?

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Re:Miyazaki's Beautiful Anti-War Dreams by pekk on Monday August 10, 2015 @10:33PM (#10038809)
The bombing of Cambodia cannot possibly justify anything Pol Pot did to his own population.
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Re:Miyazaki's Beautiful Anti-War Dreams by thisrod on Monday August 10, 2015 @11:15PM (#10038915)
I didn't suggest that it did.

However, in the context of moral outlooks that people form in that sort of environment, Pol Pot's values are quite normal. Many German soldiers formed similar views during the First World War; they were very well informed compared to the Cambodians, and in a position to know better.

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