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Originally posted by Penske_Account
And when the strategy didn't produce victory in the accepted time frame would you have been advocating withdrawing......maybe let the league of nations deal with Germany and Japan?
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In the speech I saw Hitchens give, he blasted Chamberlin and reiterated that the Nazis were incredibly evil and needed to be taken out by force, and that we had to demand unconditional surrender. He also said that the bombing of factorys and rail lines was strategically important and vital to the war effort.
The point he was making is that the British, after the Battle of Britain, decided to target civilians partially as pay back and partially for destryoing their moral. His point was that neither rational really justified deliberately targeting civilians. If they are collateral damange, such are the fortunes of war, but specifically targeting them was wrong.
He pointed out that the daylight bombing raids by the Americans in Europe were more strategic and therefor less of a problem. But in Japan LeMay specifically targeted the civilian population.
Hitchens is no surrender Monkey and he made a compelling case.
