Japanese civilians were taught to act as enemy combatants, but they were still old men, women and children armed with nothing but knives and sticks. Unlike the Japanese Infantryman, they would be no match for American G.I's.
Winning a war is nothing to be ashamed of, but I've lived long enough to seriously question the idea of the US and British having the moral high ground anymore.
Dropping nuclear weapons on women, children and babies living in paper houses is as much a war-crime as any other war-crime I've read about. You can't even use the excuse that they 'voted in' their rulers as is sometimes said about the doomed residents of Dresden, Hamburg, Berlin etc.
They dropped those shiny new bombs because they wanted to show off to Russia. They were unaware of course that many of the people working on those weapons owed their allegiance to themselves, and not their country, so 2 weeks later the Russians had the blueprints thanks to their spies.
Regarding Europe, the allies built loads of massive bombers right from the start of the war. These bombers couldn't be used for anything else but the indiscriminate carpet-bombing of cities. The Germans on the other hand had medium range precision bombers meant only for military targets. On the other hand, they had shitloads of fighters. They were totally expecting another sort of air-war, in the end hoping technology would come to their rescue with the V weapons.
But all that's by-the-by and the only thing that matters in War is winning the fucker. But we should be under no illusion that you only win them by being complete, utter bastards.
Back to topic; the Japs need to snap out of this nonsense and get back to making their borders tighter than a nun's arsehole again.
