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Originally Posted by PR_Glen
they bombed them out of necessity, not because they deserved it. There is a difference here. You can still show regret over the amount of deaths that happened because of it without saying it was necessary at the time. That is probably the tone he was aiming for there.
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you may very well be right. i see it as disingenuous. he should know more about ww2 than that. BO also should know that the morality debate of dropping those bombs has overshadowed the atrocities and conquests of imperial Japan. it was also a time long before precision bombing. civilian targets were part and partial of the entire ww2 for all sides, it was how the war was fought. hindsight is 20-20.