> So you're saying the Nazi Holocaust and the U.S. invasion of Vietnam are equally onerous, because both involved destruction of crops?
I think the point was that both the Nazi-induced famine and the US-induced famine (and subsequent contamination) are both war crimes.
> The most important point: Nazism was an evil fascist ideology that willfully killed millions.
No doubt, but it seems that the non-fascist America doesn't seem have been, in this case, much more interested in sparing civilians.
Re:Legacy of Agent Orange
by specialist on Friday April 24, 2015 @01:49PM
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Why is it important to divine which war crimes were more evil?
That is comparing fundamentally different things based on a single non-essential concrete.
The most important point: Nazism was an evil fascist ideology that willfully killed millions. The United States has never been that way.
Secondarily, to give a concrete difference: The civillian death toll from Nazism was massively greater than the civillian death toll in Vietnam, even if you are extremely generous in figuring the latter (estimates range from 245,000 to 2 million, per Wikipedia).