A spade is a spade

Submitted by Michael S (United States), May 16, 2016 at 03:24

Anne, we disagree; but I am hardly "beyond reason". During World War II, the US, Britain and the Allies intentionally targeted civilian populations, knowing that this was the only way to win the war. The Axis Powers did likewise. This has been the policy of every nation throughout history: Wars are fought to be won, by any means necessary; they are not polite affairs.

At the end of World War II, the Allied Powers, led by the US, entangled themselves in a series of hypocritical conventions about how to "fight wars nicely". None of our enemies adhere to these ridiculous conventions, and neither should we.

I have been in the Army; I am simply calling a spade a spade.

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