This is not really a good direction for diplomacy, politics, or litigation, to go in.
Not that bombing civilians is not in some sense barbaric.
But then the West, and the US, have often in the past 100 years engaged in barbarism. Think for example about the many instances of Allied barbarisms on civilians in WWII, both in Europe and in the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan on civilian cities, or the barbarisms of Vietnam and elsewhere in the colonial world.
Maybe Ambassador Power is saying that we really shouldn't have conducted war that way, and that an apology for those things is now in order.
Maybe that is an implication of her remarks regarding Russia now about barbarism, that past acts of barbarism should now be expiated somehow by its perpetrators?
How far does one go with this line of reasoning?
Maybe monetary compensation should be offered for all past acts of barbarism against all civilians everywhere, no statute of limitations.
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