Because those attacks were not seen to have any military
Posted on: February 5, 2017 at 09:55:02 CT
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If we had attacked random Japanese villages with little to no military infrastructure then the same may have been true. But an attack on a major industrial city is a very different thing.
I am talking about civilian targets that have a military value not the wholesale slaughter of civilians because you can. Although that can have military value in and of itself as well.
Edited by DHighlander at 09:55:31 on 02/05/17