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Yes, if you're still asserting that the Allies military response to Germany's and Japan's aggression in fact lengthened the war
I think you may have misread my post.
I was saying civilian bombing, (not to be confused with tactical bombing, oil refineries, etc) may have lengthened the war. Using bombs on tactical targets was productive, using bombs on civilians as a method to change their values, was counter productive, especially when you factor in the lives of sacrificing of airmen, planes, other resources.
Romans tried to change Christians values, via crusificition, worked well for them.
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analogous to how a criminal responds to punishment
Criminals are people,come from the same civilian pool.
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When you start making wild assumptions and ask others to accept them as truth without any kind of factual support, then you are walking on thin water indeed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_ ... rld_War_IIPlse find way down the fol:
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Although designed to "break the enemy's will", the opposite often happened. The British did not crumble under the German Blitz and other air raids early in the war. British workers continued to work throughout the war and food and other basic supplies were available throughout
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http://www.parl.gc.ca/Content/SEN/Commi ... un07-e.htmPlse find the fol:
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The value and morality of the strategic bomber offensive against Germany remains bitterly contested. Bomber Command's aim was to crush civilian morale and force Germany to surrender by destroying its cities and industrial installations. Although Bomber Command and American attacks left 600,000 Germans dead, and more than five million homeless, the raids resulted in only small reductions in German war production until late in the war.
and this refers to both civilian and tactical bombing.
But in the end, I am inclined to think you thought I was talking about aerial bombing, and I was not clear enough to highlight or capitalize "Civilian Bombing" is a term which means solely the killing/punishing of people only, as a tactic.
It just makes sense to bomb a woman's ammunition factory instead bombing her home which just makes her want to make her work harder to more ammunition the next day.