Don't get me wrong. I like Chomsky, but how is this new?
Our last president basically redefined the concept of 'unjust war'. We obviously haven't changed much from Vietnam War era politics.
My only real comment is that the 1945 cutoff is arbitrary and unfair. American policy at the end of WWII was to bomb as many Japanese civilians as it could. But I'm sure those numbers get skewed when you add in the wholesale killing of civilians the world in saw in WWII by other powers.