Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
You know the nips started it, right? And you know that, given the chance, they’d have done worse to us?

As Admiral Jackie Fisher put it: ‘The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.’

Sound chap.
Yes, I was rather aware of that.

And while I have no issue with bombing the hell out of military targets, including industry and transportation, even if there is significant civilian collateral damage, I do draw the line at deliberately targeting civilian areas with bombs which would burn their homes to the ground and burn millions of civilians to death.

As McNamara said 'had we lost the war we would have been tried as war criminals, and what makes it right if you win but not if you lose?'.

Well said, Bob.