In class, I was astonished to find out how unmoral the United States was for spraying Agent Orange in the highly dense forest areas. Agreed with the previous Secretary of Defense, there is no boundary of what chemicals are legal versus which are not, the United States shouldn't test out a new chemical in warfare without proper data. This harmed innocent civilians in a painful manner and therefore could be argued to be just as bad as the fire bombings.
I argued that fire bombings were much more unmoral than Agent Orange at first. However I quickly changed point of views once I realized how irresponsible the US was with this issue. Also, to find out that the enemy was seeing the war as a war of independence rather than against communism really opened my eyes to the lack of information we know for being close minded. The United States should've realized to retreat once it didn't have any followers.
The countries that shared similar values didn't support the US in this war and therefore should've allowed the US to realize it needed to take a different approach on this issue.
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