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Originally Posted by astralis
the US was ready to do that to japan during WWII- they were gonna firebomb and kill every last man, woman, and child if they had to. they didn't care two figs for the morality of doing so, or if this was going to cause international outcry, etc etc.
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Since it wasn't (everyone of note who wasn't with us was against us), the whole international aspect wasn't even a consideration. And given what the Japanese had done to both us and all of their neighbors, I don't think too many would question the morality of making sure there was only salted and smoking earth behind when we were done with them.
As I recall, the original plans for Germany and Japan had us forcibly de-industrializing them, and keeping them poor agricultural nations. It was only because of the growing fear of the communist threat that we began building them both up economically.