[GunRunner]

The atomic bombs were only a brief epitaph on a wide ranging bombing campaign that destroyed 50-90% of 67 Japanese cities, including the firebombing of the wooden city of Toyko.

I find your whole comment a non-sequitur to what's being discussed here.

[Steve_Seattle]

"The atomic bombs were only a brief epitaph on a wide ranging bombing campaign that destroyed 50-90% of 67 Japanese cities, including the firebombing of the wooden city of Toyko."

That actually strengthens my argument. The relevance of my comment is that National Review suddenly finds a snarky comment about baptism "barbaric" and "un-Christian" even though it has often supported acts of war that were incomparably more barbaric.