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  • Thursday, November 20, 2008 05:47 PM

    @jschultz

    It would have been completely proportionate, although no less immoral, for the Japanese to have fire bombed all US cities (if they could have) after how the US treated mainland Japan in WWII.

    You're right---I was sloppy. What I meant is that targeting civilians for what soldiers do is always something beyond proportion (there are always more civilians than soldiers), and I agree that "immoral" is the correct word for it. Which has been my argument all along.

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