Moreover, soldiers die in war. That’s the nature of war. To target women, children,
seniors, and other civilians as a way to save soldiers from dying in an invasion is
totally illegitimate.
It is important to note that to this day U.S. officials and their acolytes in the
mainstream press continue to defend their atomic bombing of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki based on that particular justification — that it shortened the war and,
in the process, saved the lives of U.S. soldiers.
