“...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...” [Captain Walker, post 140]
It’s always fascinating when a forum member engages in moral equivalizing.
But in so doing, you have willfully ignored a basic principle: win the war first, then worry about morality. Try it any other way, and you flirt with disaster.
Not a contortion, not revisionism, just a simple observation concerning outcomes.
I'm actually going to leave this comment as it is and not reply to it. I have sufficient confidence that those reading this thread who support the use of the atomic bombs will point out its absurdity in short order.