You are simply obfuscating the facts. As my last post stated, nearly all Japanese citizens were considered combatants by their own government. Furthermore, both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were military targets.
What you are actually arguing is that WWII could not be fought by the US at all, since all air raids more or less indiscriminately hit both combatants and civilians whether the bombs were chemical or atomic.
No; please inform me of anything in my post that was not factual.
"As my last post stated, nearly all Japanese citizens were considered combatants by their own government."
The fact that they are considered combatants by their own government is immaterial. ISIS could say eerybodyin the world is a combatant. That doesn't make it so. The farmer farms. The mother mothers. The toddler toddles. They are not to be targeted."Furthermore, both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were military targets."
Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki contained military targets. Focusing in on military targets, and smashing to smithereens is not morally objectionable. I nearboy innocent bystanders get killed, that is very sad but it is also not morally objectionable, if they were not simply being sluaghtred indiscriminately. There's always collaterl damage, and that's heartbreaking but it's not murder.
Intentionally targeting civilians in order to put pressure on their government, is murder.
"What you are actually arguing is that WWII could not be fought by the US at all.
Not so. I think the solid majority of U.S. and allied military actions in WWII were justifiable."... since all air raids more or less indiscriminately hit both combatants and civilians whether the bombs were chemical or atomic."
Even in WWII, when the precision targeting technology just wasn't there, ordinary incendiary bombs could be reasonably directed toward enemy troops or assets. You can see this in the early period of the War in Europe, when the US Army Air Corps did daytime bombings focusing on Nazi military assets. This was in contrast to the RAF, which did nighttime carpet bombings of whole cities, city block by city block.
Even if they predictably caused a whole lot of collateral civilian damage, the USAAC was justified in using incendiary bombs targeted "as exactly as they could" ---these bombings, though devastating, were not targeting the civilian per se.