Talk:Genocide bombing

This article seems pretty skewed, to say nothing of poorly written. It's really not my field, though, so I hope someone can help fix it up. Cantara 04:16, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

First thing it needs is some indication of who actually uses this term. I've never heard it before and the way it devalues the term "genocide" to such a ludicrous degree I have a hard time believing any serious commentators use it. Bryan 17:24, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Me neither, have never heard the term and am masters' level student of the conflict matters on the area... And indeed, it's poorly written. Greetings, Eliza

I just checked all of the pages linked from external links, and not one of them used the term "genocide bomb" anywhere in them. Google only comes up with 525 hits, but does appear to include some actual genuine uses of this silly term[1]. I'm going to remove the existing external links and toss in one that appears to indicate an origin for it, [2]. Not that I've done much extensive research. Bryan 04:25, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

I found a few references myself, not remembering hearing the term I did a search.

http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=2779

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=57043

HTH --DanKorn 06:51, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Wouldn't the term make more sense if it referred to bombings that are actually genocidal and not simply homocidal? Only a few examples come to mind: the fascist bombing of Guernica in the Basque region of Spain during the Spanish Civil War, maybe the American bombing of South and North Vietnam during the Vietam War (resulting in over a million deaths). Suicide bombing is morally reprehensible, but it is not genocidal. 154.20.53.230 22:49, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Might make more sense, but unfortunately Wikipedia can only reflect actual usage "out there" rather than trying to dictate what it should be. If you can find sources using the term like that then by all means add them, though. Bryan 00:53, 31 May 2006 (UTC)