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To: one_less who wrote (516960)	9/29/2009 9:50:57 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) of 1577800

Targeting innocents to effect an advantage against your enemy is wrong, was wrong, and forever will be wrong. It may be wrong. But it was essential in bringing the war to an end. The reason LeMay firebombed Tokyo is clear: The belief was that if the "innocents" at home weren't made to feel the pain and apply pressure to the leadership, the war would continue for a long time. You have to remember that we were losing 5,000 or 10,000 Americans, maybe more -- every time we had to take one of those Pacific islands. There was no end in sight. Had we not used the nukes, it was going to be necessary to launch, in very short order, an invasion of Japan. That would have resulted in many dead Americans and a hell of a lot more dead Japanese -- including civilians. The killing of those civilians ended the war. We could have ground up Japanese soldiers from now on and not had the same effect.

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