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Entry: The Truth About the "Good War" Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_truth_about_the_good_war#25877 Post contents: Chris, I agree with your sentiments, but unfortunately there is a world of difference between what we did over Europe--flying by day and trying to hit military targets--and what we did over Japan--flying by night and dropping incendiaries over cities filled with wooden structures. In his book, Buchanan offers this quote from Curtis LeMay on the fire bombing of Tokyo: "We scorched and boiled and baked to death more people in Tokyo that night of March 9-10 than went up in vapor in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined." Similar tactics were employed by Bomber Command over Germany. The Christian just war tradition says that not only must the war be just, but so must be the means employed. The Allies in World War II met the first test; unfortunately, we did not always meet the second. Sent at: 2008 08 30