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**qCGfQR9T** · 02-26-2012, 12:41 AM

Not as though we were left with a plethora of options. Half measures don't address extremity.

Any indignation after the fact is merely luxury. And perhaps more than a little dishonest, in light of the far greater indignities we'd have suffered had we lost.

I don't condemn the actions. I see them as a necessary step to destroying the manufacturing ability of the German/Japanese populations to stop their ability to continue the war, and a hell of a psychological weapon. Theoretically, it's no different than walking up and shooting each one of those civilians in the head. In reality, the bombing raids were done at great danger when the war was still in the balance, not when we already had our boots on their throats. It's a difference in timing that makes it acceptable.

02-26-2012, 12:41 AM	#21
qCGfQR9T Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 346 Senior Member	Not as though we were left with a plethora of options. Half measures don't address extremity. Any indignation after the fact is merely luxury. And perhaps more than a little dishonest, in light of the far greater indignities we'd have suffered had we lost. I don't condemn the actions. I see them as a necessary step to destroying the manufacturing ability of the German/Japanese populations to stop their ability to continue the war, and a hell of a psychological weapon. Theoretically, it's no different than walking up and shooting each one of those civilians in the head. In reality, the bombing raids were done at great danger when the war was still in the balance, not when we already had our boots on their throats. It's a difference in timing that makes it acceptable.
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