1. We didn’t start the war.
2. We didn’t engage is systemic war atrocities, as did the Japanese, towards us and their neighbors. Wake Island. Execution of missionaries. Comfort women.
3. We gave the civilian population warning. They baked out of their own pride. If Japan had the same capability, there is nothing in their culture or history that suggests they would do in kind.
4. Heavy industry and their workers, were equally legitimate targets as military dispositions.
5. Japan knew they couldn’t win. But they were willing to continue the misery for everyone.
6. We spared Tokyo so that there would be a government post-war in order to rebuild. And then we rebuilt their economy, later super-charging it via the Korean War.
They got what they deserved. FAFO at the nuclear level.
Well, we're no longer denying that the US deliberately targeted population centers, so I feel like I've made some progress.
Maybe next there will be an admission that the "LeMay Leaflets", if they even were actually dropped, were simply too vague to be of any practical use. www.quora.com
Maybe we won't see eye to eye on this; I've made my point and I'll step out here.