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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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Why do you interject the morality issue into firebombing Japan? We were at war and anticipating the Japanese were good for their word that they intended to fight to the last man and woman in defense of the homeland.
Firebombing was a tactic we employed but was never expected to be decisive. We had always planned to invade with massive troop landings. Military planners feared losses of US troops in the hundreds of thousands. How impervious were we to moral issues if we were willing to incur losses of that magnitude?
Of course, it was spectre of so many losses that prompted us to use the A-bomb.