re: #1 ggt

Good, there is no freakin’ reason to apologize.

I dunno. Incinerating tens of thousands of civilians is not my favorite way to win a war. Japan was licked and they (mostly) knew it. We had sunk their fleet as well as their entire merchant marine. AC Grayling gets into the weeds of strategic bombing and the racial differences in how we dealt with Germany and Japan in terms of targeting, as well as the effectivnes of deliberate terror bombing of civilian populations vs pin point bombing of munitions factorys, railway yards and the like. He concludes that the latter was far more effective (and morally defensible) than the former.