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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
Ustwo, while I do agree with your point about the protest and it's "legitimacy", you're completely wrong about the legality of war. There have been rules and laws of warfare for well over 1000 years. Typically broken rules have only been enforced by the victors, but analogy that you're using to make your point sucks. You should find a new one.
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And none of them applied in any of those wars. It doesn't matter what people write down, it matters what they do and wars are never illegal or legal, they are just won or lost.
Was it legal to bomb Pearl Harbor? For the Japanese yes, for the Americans no, the answer was not decided in court but in combat, the US won and the attack was therefore 'illegal'.
The Japanese committed war crimes to the Chinese civilians and US POW's. Had they won, these would not have been war crimes. On the other hand the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well as the firebombing of Tokyo would have almost undoubtedly lead to US leaders being put up on war crimes charges.
There are no laws in war, only gentilemens agreements. No court can enforce its will on a hostile army, which is why the law does not apply. Only the side in power can decide after what was legal and what was not.
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