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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (338529)5/24/2007 7:29:01 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1576387
 
In general I agree with you, we usually didn't deliberately target civilians. But things like the fire bombing of Tokyo strike me as mainly attacks against civilians, and the nuclear bombings were wide area attacks with the majority of the area not consisting of specific military targets. (Although there where military targets in and near the cities)

Obviously we were not as careful to avoid attacking civilians then as we are now, OTOH it was reasonable to be less careful, because the weapons weren't accurate enough, and because the enemy was closer to us in power. Working in the other direction is the fact that the enemy mostly wore uniforms, and didn't place schools and weapons plants next to each other, but still avoiding large numbers of civilian deaths was hopeless at that time. It was possible to try to decrease these deaths, and we made some efforts along those lines. But to large of effort would have just prolonged the war, or if really taken to an extreme, caused us to lose it.
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