Hiroshima and Nagasaki

With the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the U.S. DIRECTLY targeted civilians.  They also directly targeted civilians with the firebombing of Tokyo and Dresden.  The Japanese and German GOVERNMENTS committed many atrocities, but that in no way makes it moral or right for the U.S. to murder civilians in those countries.

You can make all the arguments you want about how murdering these civilians brought an early end to the war.  This does not change the fact that civilian men, women, and children were murdered.  When other people do this, we call them terrorists.  That label applies equally here.

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If you change the figures my argument becomes even more valid.

1: Order the bombing of a city which is supporting a fascist war machine.
Pros - You will indirectly stop a war which has already seen 50000000 casualties over 6 years and thrown much of the world into poverty and chaos.
Cons - You will kill 100000 people through collateral damage.

I didn't say the civilians weren't being targetted, I said they were collateral damage. Children were not supporting the war machine, this is irrelevant. How much civilian support for the war is irrelevant. I do not support terrorism, I support total war in the face of a serious threat to my country and it's democracy.