[Praxius]

Quote by: HelioPrime Pearl Harbor was a military target but not just men in uniform died. Aid and hospital workers as well as civilians on base.

Aware... but there are hospitals, civilians and the sort in most military bases around the world, I don't see that as much of a defense in comparison to cities which held very little for military, besides as you say production.... but that would be just the exact same thing as them nuking Michigan factories, full of civilians building for your own forces.

The attack on cities has nothing to do with pearl harbor. The way to end a war is to destroy the nations ability to build its military. Japan based all its infastructure inside cities.

So did you guys.... I see no difference, except hypocracy.... it would have been evil if they did it to you, but for you guys to do it, you find some justification for it. Anybody can find a remote level of justification for anything.... whether that justification seems valid depends on the individual.

So the brutal abuse of prisoners, treatment of women and children in occupied zones, and their suicide fliers were all honorable fighting methods?

Kamakazis in their culture was an honorable method of sacraficing yourself to assist and honor your country..... the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

How about the US and Canada's rounding up of all asian citizens in our countries and holding them and their families in detention facilities, regardless if there was evidence of them being spies.... racial profiling is what it was, out of fear.

And when it comes to brutality, I think your A-Bomb attacks go above and beyond beating POW's around.

Japan based its military related industry inside crowded cities. Mass death was a side effect that could not be avoided. If we had just bombed the buildings, the fires would have spread quickly and created firestorms killing mass numbers of people. The japanese would have suffered horrible losses no matter how we tackled dealing with the Japanese mainland.

I'll be sure to remember this when one of your cities ever gets nuked.... as your own cities are designed in the same manner. I guess it's alright to use the same mentality. Most of your factories, as well as our own, are intergrated into our cities and towns for easy access for our civilian population who are employed in them.

During the War car factories and such were changed into factories for military purposes.... so think of all those current factories in your country that design planes, cars, and other mechanical devices which most likely would be converted back into military factories in a great war.... and then picture all those factories within your cities and towns being potiential targets for a nuclear attack and tell me how you feel about that. I imagine you wouldn't like the idea.

War is never pretty. Every watch Star Trek? The episode where they come across a planet ungulfed in a old standing war where there is no real fighting, just computer calculations?

If that was on the original series, most likely I didn't see it.

If we take away all the blood and death and try to make conflict pretty what is there to make us not want to go to war again?

Now you see the solution.