Now about not forcing Papa Joe to allow shuttle bombing in order to help the Warsaw uprising . . .
Or when Hungary was taken over by the Germans and the most efficient mass roundup of Jews made during the entire war took place over rail lines that weren't already in the hands of the Germans who were going to "easily repair" the bridges, tunnels, and embankments in spite of their not having their own people in place prepared to do so.
I get the point. The Jews weren't worth the powder it would take to blow up a bit of the genocide machine down now and again to reduce the efficiency of the German slaughter. Thank God even more Jews didn't survive to cause the Brits trouble in after the war, right?
Just like they were when FDR wouldn't allow the people on the SS St Louis to at least disembark here and try to get passage to somewhere else if they couldn't let 900 men, women, and children further expand the New York Jewish community.
None of this alters the fact that it was a just war, it only shows that there were plenty of trade offs made that were far less justifiable than dropping nukes on Japan. In Japan, we spared Japanese a mass slaughter while saving our own people as well. In Europe, sparing civilians wasn't an issue even when they were being methodically slaughtered which makes a lie of the whole "racist war in the Pacific" lie.
Bombing some rail lines wouldn't have slowed down anything. If the concentration camps weren't available, the germans would have simply slaughtered the Jews with whatever means were available locally. That's the point.
In 1943, the Warsaw ghetto had already been emptied, Treblinka had been shut down and at that very same time the U.S. was debating stopping daylight bombing in Germany because our bomber losses were so heavy. Flying into Poland wasn't an option and would have done little, if any, good. It wasn't a question of saving some bombs and fuel - I noticed you didn't mention the 10-man crews that flew the bombers...