[Captain Walker]

More people, including civilians, died in the fire bombing of Tokyo.

Which is what makes the annual discussion about the Bomb so tedious.

Our government had decided long before August 1945 that Japanese civilians were a legitimate target.

Every argument about the Bomb is nothing more than pushback against the idea that the American serviceman was morally capable of carrying out bombing raids which targeted civilians. (It was only the "Japs" and the "Krauts" who did Bad Things; anything done by the "greatest country in the world" was a moral necessity.)

[Teacher317]

Our government had decided long before August 1945 that Japanese civilians were a legitimate target.

So they recognized the actual global status quo from the preceding decades. So?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Yeah it is amazing how the sodomite commies come out and cry about the poor wittle cannibalistic Japanese on that day.

Of course the Russians were engaging in cannibalism themselves at that time.

And a couple of decades later so did the Chi-Coms.

People eaters of a feather flock together.