Reply #33: Stalin kicked Japan out of Manchuria... [View All]

[ConservativeDemocrat]

...not any "resistance". In fact, Japan only lost it at the very end of WWII. Had it not been for them losing that war, they certainly would have gotten away with it. (Same thing for the Nazis and the Jews.)

But plenty of genocides have been successful, with no significant cost to the perpetrators:

U.S. vs Native American tribes (various)
U.K. vs Native Australians/New Zealanders (Maori)
China vs Tibet
Various Russian pogroms
At least half a dozen African genocides since the 50s, most recently Darfur.
Russia vs Chechnya
etc...


- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community

p.s. The lesson isn't to be less moral. It's that you should never go to war unless the American public is really unconcerned with the morality of the enemy civilian deaths. That was the case in WW2 - because of Pearl Harbor. It was the case in Afghanistan - because of 9/11. It was not the case in Iraq or Vietnam.