Personally I wouldn’t know how to make an argument one way or another. But to draw a modern equivalent, did Russia need to level Mariupol in order to capture it? They’ve been widely condemned for it.
If the allies had held back, we would not have definitively answered the question. Since our forefathers tried despite not knowing if it would work or not, though, we can use the knowledge they purchased for the future.
We should not wish to not have it, though, even though it was very expensive. We know now. That is important. They earned that for us.
Strategic bombing was widely put into question after wwii
The allies should have held back.
Personally I wouldn’t know how to make an argument one way or another. But to draw a modern equivalent, did Russia need to level Mariupol in order to capture it? They’ve been widely condemned for it.
Russia didn’t need to enter the borders of Ukraine at all.
If the allies had held back, we would not have definitively answered the question. Since our forefathers tried despite not knowing if it would work or not, though, we can use the knowledge they purchased for the future.
We should not wish to not have it, though, even though it was very expensive. We know now. That is important. They earned that for us.