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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: epicure who wrote (234002)6/22/2007 1:47:21 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
We call their methods "barbaric" because they are primitive and personal (and they are primitive and personal because of the asymmetry of warfare), but we see nothing barbaric in fire bombing, because it is more "impersonal"

We only did the firebombing in the context of a total war, and we have had tremendous angst about that and about nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I cannot see that the Japanese have had similar angst about the Rape of Nanking, which wasn't even a military necessity. It wasn't "primitive and personal", btw. The Japanese soldiers were not out of control. The Rape of Nanking was the policy of the Japanese Army.
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