re: #270 Tigger2005

You did not read my post at all. I never said it was OK. I said it was ridiculous to say we are “just as bad” as the Nazis or Imperial Japanese for doing it.

I ask you. Do you think we were just as bad as the Nazis and Imperial Japanese, for what we did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Mass destruction of civilian populations is generally considered a warcrime, which was one reason that Secretary of War Stimson was deeply against using the atom bomb on a city.

I still think that a better case can still be made for the atom bombs than can be said for what Air Marshall “Bomber” Harris did to most of the cities in Germany. He was having women and children incinerated nightly well beyond any such time that a case could hav been made for military necessity, and he was openly insubordinate to Churchill when he was ordered to stop burning civilians and start bombing the fucking factories and railroads (which the 8th AAF was busy doing to try and win the war)

The best book to read on this subject is Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan by AC Grayling.