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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
When you think about what he was doing, you can understand why. When they firebombed Tokyo, there really wasn't a pretense that they were going after military or industrial targets.
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That, though, had far more of a logical basis than some of the other carpetbomb plans. One of the main impediments to reining the Japanese in was their belief in the infallibility of the Emperor, and the corrollary belief that their homeland could never be touched/breached/damaged. In that case, there was a well-grounded thought that the Japanese morale needed to be hurt with a measure of damage thay they considered impossible, and the Tokyo bombings actually accomplished that to some degree.
Not to defend the carnage - just to make the abstract point.
