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by tremon 39 days ago
Are you sure your name isn't Jingo?

> When did USA bomb a civilian house that wasn't a part of a larger operation

Why does that matter? The attacks on the Twin Towers were also part of a larger operation, does that excuse the attacks in any way?

> Terrorist attacks only target civilians

Nope, terrorism can include literally anything when Power deems it convenient.

https://stratnewsglobal.com/europe/united-kingdom/uk-charges... : British MPs on Wednesday voted to declare pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action a terrorist organisation, after its activists broke into a military base and damaged two aircraft

> I have never seen such an attack by USA

That may very well be true, but the world is a lot bigger than what your eyes can capture. "I don't see it, therefore it doesn't exist" is a state of mind that most people grow out of around the age of 8 months.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre : When the soldiers got to the village, they did not find any NLF troops. Despite this, many soldiers began to kill the villagers, mainly elderly people, women, and children

> [the USA] always try to target military or leaders

Bless your heart.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/02/politics/timeline-us-strikes-... : The US military has killed at least 207 people in strikes that have destroyed 66 vessels

> The last time I know USA did a terror attack was japan in ww2

Yet another example of "one man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/mar/24/worlddispatch.... : To some in the Arab and Muslim countries, Shock and Awe is terrorism by another name; to others, a crime that compares unfavourably with September 11

> the first world stopped doing terror bombings since then

Nixon and Kissinger were not part of the first world, then?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Menu : Apart from the large human toll, perhaps the most powerful and direct impact of the bombing was the political backlash it caused [..] The U.S. carpet bombing of Cambodia was partly responsible for the rise of what had been a small-scale Khmer Rouge insurgency, which now grew capable of overthrowing the Lon Nol government

Nixon decided to keep the bombing a secret from the American people as to admit to bombing an officially neutral nation would damage his credibility

> that is what it looks like when the strongest military in the world perform terror attacks

We know perfectly well what it looks like: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/12/22/2025-in-gaza-12...