What is your take on the A-bomb droppings on Japan?

[al Roumi]

I wasn't trying to justify anything that happened. It just happened to be easier to bomb a general location. It doesn't make any sense because the Brits went through the Blitz without surrendering. Dresden itself had little military industry to begin with, and its destruction seemed to have had the poorest explanations.

I agree and its not at all clear to me why bombing is still seen as a viable or even effective strategy -even as a morale weapon. I'm sure that at best, it has had mixed results -either protracting and intensifying a conflict or subduing it (as presumably intended).

The bombs also need to be looked at in the light of Japanese barbarity, during the war.

Oh yes: "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth", isn't that a great dictum with a glorious record of real-world applications.