The bonmbng campaign against the Germans and the Japs was the best application of the available technology to gain legitimate war aims. Assumed necessity creates *very weak* moral justification for killing civilians in 5 digit ranges. 'They' were *not* civilians. 'They' were providing the means to keep Japanese forces in the field murdering real honest to god civilians to the tune of 50+ thousand /week by the end of the war. greg

In article <Of2eg.8538$ This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it _link_.net, roncach...@nospamearth_link_.net says... Possibly true of Britain's Bomber Command, definitely not true of the United States Army Air Force. Technically the British bombed very similar targets to the US. When they bombed a city, they said it was the factories, the naval dockyards etc.  no they were veryupfront about admitting they bombed worker housing in an attempt to displace the  workers and overwhelm the social services. that the workers were at home was just unfortunate. Can you find me one reference where the British did admit it before bombing. When they went to bombing they talked about the factories, not the houses behind the factories.

In article <Of2eg.8538$ This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it _link_.net, roncach...@nospamearth_link_.net says... Possibly true of Britain's Bomber Command, definitely not true of the United States Army Air Force.   Technically the British bombed very similar targets to the US. When they bombed a city, they said it was the factories, the naval dockyards etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II <quote The bombing of Dresden by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) between February 13 and February 15, 1945 remains one of the more controversial events of World War II. </quote Check your own reference above +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On January 27 Sinclair replied:     The Air Staff have now arranged that, subject to the overriding claims of attacks on enemy oil production and other approved target systems within the current directive, available effort should be directed against Berlin, Dresden, Chemnitz and Leipzig or against other cities where severe bombing would not only destroy communications vital to the evacuation from the east, but would also hamper the movement of troops from the west. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The communication system and the movement of troops are all military targets.

It may look weaker in comparison to the other side but the record is much less than perfect . There are two easily discerned diferences. 1. It was Japanese policy to murder POW's. It was not the policy of the Allies to murder POW's. The Kill-All Order The Cabanatuan POWs' fear of becoming victims of another large scale massacre were well founded. After the war, it became clear that there existed a high command order

The bonmbng campaign against the Germans and the Japs was the best application of the available technology to gain legitimate war aims. Assumed necessity creates *very weak* moral justification for killing civilians in 5 digit ranges. 'They' were *not* civilians. 'They' were providing the means to keep Japanese forces in the field murdering real honest to god civilians to the tune of 50+ thousand /week by the end of the war. <irony   I see, they were bad civilians . Your logic is irresistible </irony