What’s your point cap? It was total war. Atomic solution or otherwise.
I get this.
My point is with the revisionists who engage in various contortions to try to make the case that the bombing campaign against Japan was one where the US simply had no other choice than to target population centers, or that the destruction caused to the population centers was actually unintended. It was clear that before the Americans even entered the war that we considered the Japanese civilians a fair target, and that we were simply going ignore the principles of just war that the West had embraced for centuries.
(It was those "Japs" and "Krauts" who committed the war crimes, you see. And the idea that the American citizen-soldier who fought in WWII was just as capable of committing murder on a large scale is just too much for some to handle.)