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It was a complete detriment to the United States that Joe McCarthy had to work with a gavel and Roy Cohn instead of a chainsaw and a large professional wrestler.

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed along with most of their 100% civilian population despite the fact that they had not a single military installation in either of them.

Unlike the Germans who separated their large arms manufacturing centers away from civilian populations, the Japanese (especially during the latter years of WWII) manufactured their armaments in an almost cottage industry setting with small plants scattered throughout their civilian population. The Tokyo fire raids were a good example of USAF intentionally trying to cripple Japanese small arms production prior to a mainland invasion. If you want to quote examples of useless civilian slaughter in WWII, names like Coventry, Dresden, and Shanghai should come to mind.