[Mastador1]

I would accept it as justified if it definitely shortened that war.

At that time the war was effectively over, the action was arguably worse than any bombing the Germans did in their bombings of London in it's scope and accuracy, the Luftwaffe was a bare skeleton. There can be no comparison to the bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki as far as needing to pacify a citizenship willing to fight to the last man, woman and child. There was no such attitude among the German people as a whole who were tired of a war that had drug on under the leadership of a patently insane Hitler.

[PeterPrinciple]

At that time the war was effectively over, the action was arguably worse than any bombing the Germans did in their bombings of London in it’s scope and accuracy,

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Hind sight might give some perspective but YOU WERE NOT THERE. This is the same argument given for Japan.

You stand on the hill of HINDSIGHT - what if, maybe.