t My point is that to intentionally target civilians for indiscriminate slaughter, to force a response from their government, is murder. It's what the Chechens did at Beslan. It is what terrorists do.
A true Warrior Ethic is to smash the enemy and spare the innocent. One cannot always do this perfectly - and in the stress, terror and press or war, how to do it is not so obvious or so east - but to try to do that, to intend to do that, pertains to the difference between good warfare, and murder; and that is akin to the difference between the forces of Men of Middle Earth and the Orcs, if you want to put it that way; or the host of heaven and the demons of hell.
Tagline. It's from Psalm 72:4.
No, you cited individual officer’s opinions, some of which were not directly involved with fighting Japan. The fact that the Japanese didn’t surrender even after the first A bomb was dropped shows their judgement was based on their own understanding of military science and not the twisted ethics of Bushido as it become in fascist Japan.