Obviously you don't know about the battles of the 8th Air Force to make daylight bombing work, specifically so we didn't have to do night time firebomb raids. It was the British that flew those.
It was simply impossible given the technology of the day to minimize civilian deaths from bombing the way we can today.
There was a specific time when the US made a conscious decision to stop flying HE bomb missions against Japanese military targets, and began firebombing their cities.
That blood is on the hands of Tojo and his fellow fanatic fascists.
I get your point. Two wrongs make a right. Because the Japs were barbaric, it was OK if Americans were barbaric. Then Lindbergh was right. American soldiers did murder Japanese soldiers under a white flag, and you think that's just fine.
Did it ever occur to you that the decision to change bombing tactics happened after Iwo Jima and coincident with the Okinawa campaign, when it became obvious all the previous campaigns and the impending losses of two islands the Japanese considered home territory would not cause a surrender? Our choice was either to target Japanese civilians and destroy their will to resist or prepare for millions of dead, both Japanese and Allied, in a ground invasion. Responding to Japanese aggression and fanaticism in the way we did was not a second "wrong" - unless you are on the same moral equivalence kick as the America hater crowd.
You probably agree with John Kerry that using .50 cal. on troops is a "war crime."