I will never apologize for any act of the Allies during WWII. I believe the use of escalated terror bobming against Japan and Germany was entirely justified. I believe we need to return to that philosophy today if we want to win this war against Islamic totalitarianism.
Sadly, I don't think we ever will. The west has lost its spine, its will to fight a war for survival. Only those nations willing to defend themselves ruthlessly will survive. Who will it be?
The ironic thing is that the reason for the west's guilt complex is the crimes of Nazi Germany. Then liberal westerners exonerated the Japanese (for being a non-western people who can't be judged by western standards); then they exonerated the Italians (I vividly recall many years ago a PBS documentary whitewashing Mussolini--not that he was anywhere near as evil as Hitler--and a more recent History Channel documentary on the treatment of Italians in the US during the war). And now because we have assumed the guilt of Nazi Germany, we feel guilty for bombing Nazi Germany!
No wonder today's "philo-Semitic" liberals have adopted David Duke's pal Ahmadinejad as their poster boy!
I agree with zook. In WWII, we did whatever it took to win. Some of it was brutal, but we won.
The Germans didn't surrender until the Red Army took Berlin, and we were facing the same problem with Japan.
My dad and his brother were in combat zones in the ETO. Not long after V-E day, they were told their units might have to go to the Pacific. If we had been forced to defeat Japan by invading the Home Islands, I wonder how many of our fathers would have died, and how many of us wouldn't have been born?
It is a big blow to moral when you have to slog your way across the frozen fields of France and the Soviet Union or up the rocky mountains of Italy in your bare feet.
Ditto. When you sow the wind, you reap the whirdlwind.