Quote Originally Posted by Fisherking View Post
I am not trying to justify my actions you know. I am just trying to put the decision within the context of the times.
Don't be too timid, or intimidated. Reading the internets nowadays, one starts to feel America and the allies have to justify their many WWII war crimes to their poor victims.

Pft.

I say, tell me why Germany and Japan should not have been bombed into defeat as soon as possible. Why not every means should've been used to win and end this war. I wish I would've had two hundred A-bombs in 1942. Or in 1937. I would've dropped them too.

Soul searching is good. So are humanitarian values. But there is such a thing as right and wrong. Even allowing for blurred lines and grey areas.
The - what's the proverb - the proof of the pudding is in the eating. How did Germany and Japan treat the peoples whom they defeated? And how, by comparison, did the (western) allies treat Germany and Japan after 1945? There is such a thing as good and bad, and good is justified in defeating bad.



On another level, I will shed a tear as much for the Germans and the Japanese as I do for everybody else. A lot of people suffered, died, who didn't deserve that. And many of those who did deserve it, would under other circumstances simply have lived out a peaceful life. But the ultimate responsibility lies not in Washington or London, but in Tokyo and Berlin.