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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
By the time Tokyo was firebombed, there had been an awful lot of damage in Japan. I'm not saying that it couldn't be rationalized at the time, but so can many war crimes. The idea that you can bomb another country into giving up is, as it turns out, pretty dubious, though we always like to pretend that it will happen. Spanky points to Serbia as an exception to my rule, which is fair, but doesn't take you very far.
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Okay, so you're the armchair general, with the added benefit of fifty years of hindsight. What would you have done? How would you have avoided the kind of carnage we saw in the island battles? Can you imagine how bad that carnage would have been on the home islands?
