Hamas' brutality is unpardonable

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227. The big problem with your argument is that you suggest that the bombing decided the war.

The war was won by boots on the ground, not bombs falling from the sky.

The strategic bombing campaigns were a failure. The theory was that bombing could end the war, it couldn't and it didn't. Production continued to increase in Germany up to the time the the Russians were knocking on the door, so it did not knock out the industry as was the stated goal. Usually, the bombing was done on the wrong targets, and then, most of the bombs missed their intended targets. When the Brits bombed at night, the only target big enough to hit was a city, so they bombed city centers.

The terror aspect of the bombing was also a failure in Germany as it was in London, and for the same reason; it brought the population together, it didn't terrorize them into demanding surrender. When we nuked Japan, they were already looking for a way out, they were ready to negotiate a surrender if it left the emperor intact, and they ended up with that anyway. The old, "It saved a million American lives", was simply bullshit; a justification for using those expensive new toys. Had we not used the bombs, post war Americans would have wanted to hang everyone involved in the Manhatten Project for the gross waste of resources.

The terror bombing of city centers and the civilian population was a crime, then and now. We don't recognize it as a war crime becuse we won. Attempts to justify Israel bombing civilians, in a terror campaign, by whatabouting the WWII bombing is really a silly, grasping at straws, argument in the defence of an unjustifiable crime. Make no mistake, Israel is making war on Palestinians, if members of Hamas are killed in the process, so much the better.