“While I disagree with everything you have written here I would like to commend you for at least trying to alter the ethics of our firebombing campaign against Japan and not the history of it, as some would do.” [Captain Walker, post 165]
I don’t really care what your take is on the ethics of this or that WW2 Allied airstrike campaign, but suspect your counterattack on those citing bits of history from the period isn’t undertaken with decent motives. I question both the honesty and the probity of self-appointed moral arbiters, who cast aspersions on the character of decisionmakers of those days, and on the actions of those lesser personages, who had to carry out the actual orders. Their sweat and their sacrifices made possible the life we enjoy today; second-guessing them now breaks faith with our predecessors, casting a cloud of doubt over actions that cannot be redressed now.
Moralizers are freeloaders, contributing little.
You have no idea what anyone here has "contributed", and the sanctimony you display while you deride others for the same is laughable.