[Cyrien]

Korea wasn't a war it was a police action by the UN, the Last "War" the US engaged in was WW2. I believe that exception was already made for those. Of course now someone will come up and ask what the difference is since you are just as dead in one as the other. Well according to US and international laws there are actually quite a few differences. I won't go into those now just stating they exist.

As for thermo's arguments being the same reason that Germany executed whole villages. WRONG!

The Germans didn't kill them because they were potential warriors. The Germans killed them because they were lower than human. They weren't of the superior race and so should be exterminated before they contaminated the superior race.

The Germans were engaged in an act of Genocide that would have continued after the War was over if they had won until there were none of the inferior people left anywhere in the world.

The other argument only applies to such targets during time of actual conflict. They are valid targets to harm the enemy but not for the purpose of total annihilation of the entirety of the people. It is not an act of Genocide but of Total War.

Germany: Kill everything until it is dead forever.

Total War: Kill everything until it surrenders.

I would argue there is a vast morale difference between the two.

Germany killed those people even if they were citizens of Germany. The US might deport or lock away in detention camps (I won't call them concentration camps because they weren't. There is a vast difference between the Nazi concentration camps and the Japanese detention camps in the US. The camps in the US were awfull but not on the German scale.) but it didn't exterminate its own people when it went to war against nations of origin for those people.