Easy for you to say, God damnit! Its called a
WORLD WAR people! Anything goes, right or wrong. It was kill or be killed, no time to pour over faded ink on crumbly bits of paper while the bombs rain down. They believed that stategic bombing would help shorten the war, it was worth trying. No point in giving the Nazis and Japs a free ride. On the subject of the Japs, everyone was a possible combatant and material producer. Any attack on Japanese cities was an attack on its war industry. Plus, anything that happened to Japan or Germany were no where near as bad as the Holocaust or the Rape or Nanjing, etc. If they of Bomber Command and the USAAF hadn't been willing to lay down their lives you'd be speaking German and saying "Heil Hitler" all day if you were lucky, or a slave to the Japanese if you weren't.

