The Allied Bombing of German Cities in World War Two Was Unjustifiable
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Bombing of Civilian Populations Is Not a Good Thing to Do
55,000 members of the Army of Bomber Command died in the skies over Germany. It raises a very difficult problem for those of us who think that the bombing of civilian populations is not a morally acceptable way of going on or conducting a war. Given that it was a justified war, a right war, and given that it was something that we had to win, does that justify everything we did in the course of it? I want to argue that our view of the choices made by RAF Bomba Command and by the high command of our military endeavor was in that one respect role.
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