It certainly is a war crime and a human tragedy. Yet at the same time how were the allies going to get Japan and Germany to surrender? They both put up fanatical resistance and glorified death over surrender. Fighting when there was no chance of winning
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Yes but, try as I might to put myself in the mindset of that time , I still have a hard time concluding that deliberately targeting civilian women, children, and male workers with incendiaries was a morally justifiable approach to ending the war. Even many of the pilots objected.
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The generals who oversaw the bombing campaign were clear and deliberate in targeting civilian populations that they did not view the Japanese people as anything other than subhuman, Curtis LeMay in particular. LeMay was later George Wallace’s running mate.
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Interesting, then, that the Japanese government awarded LeMay the First‐Class Order of Merit of the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun for helping to establish Japan’s modern air force after the war. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/magazine/the-man-who-wont-let-the-world-forget-the-firebombing-of-tokyo.html …
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I highly recommend the book Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse. It's a novel based upon historical records.
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This is why war justice is not civil justice. How many men would have been uselessly sacrificed to win if they had to totally defeat all their forces?
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There was some justification but yes very very true
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Absolutely zero justification for things like the firebombing of Tokyo sorry, go watch Grave of the Fireflies or something for starters
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Yes, and I recall in Errol Morris' Fog of War doc on R. McNamara, RM said Lemay once remarked to him that if the US had lost the war that they would have been tried as war criminals.
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