You say it's hard to believe we couldn't fnd another way, but I note you haven't offered one.
I can offer one. Have Americans act as real men do. Fight women and children armed with knives and sabers with guns not devastation from the sky. My father had one of the crew in his care. The devastationo the men who flew those planes and dropped tose bombs was devastating.
Weighing numbers of deaths never justifies the intrinsic evil of direct killing of the innocent or inadequately armed women and children.
We were wrong. And I am a hawk.