On the 75th anniversary of the firebombing of Tokyo, it is important to reflect and realize that the US bombing campaign against cities resulted in horrific war crimes. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/magazine/we-hated-what-we-were-doing-veterans-recall-firebombing-japan.html …
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Replying to @gorskon
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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Replying to @MarkRap40434853
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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Replying to @gorskon @MarkRap40434853
Of course, sadly, they didn't object enough to refuse to take part in the raids. A lot of pressure was placed on them. Also, nearly four years of death, war, and propaganda portraying the Japanese as subhuman made it easier for them to rationalize their decisions to take part.
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Actually, the war had only been going on for three years and three months by this time. (The pedant in me was bothered by my last Tweet.)
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