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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Not for nothing, but in the "good" WWII, firebombing major cities and slaughtering civilian populations was indeed enshrined as policy and approved at the highest level.
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Fair point, though a different problem. We also had concentration camps for Japanese-Americans and a segregated Army and Navy.
That being said, as I've said here before, I'm only here because of Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb, so I have no problem with that -- and I think that, contra the revisionists occasionally cited here, the Emperor would never have cut a deal to surrender absent the loss of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And I have less of a problem with US bombing than with British and German bombing because we at least were being as accurate as technology permited in going for largely military targets (but see the non-nuclear firebombing of Tokyo, which probably killed more civilians that either of the nuclear bombings or of the Dresden bombing).
Interestingly, I don't recall the Luftwaffe being charged with war crimes for the terror bombings of England in 1940 or the V-1 or V-2 programs, but I could be wrong.
