I agree with you. I was asking sinkspur, since he's suddenly sounding like a Code Pinko while trying to criticize Trump. We'd be speaking German if pacifists like him were in leadership during WWII.
My family history taught me about WWII from early childhood. My father worked building internment facilities at Heart Mountain, Wyoming as a teenager, before he enlisted in the Marine Corps.
My mother lived in SoCal subject to blackouts, rationing, risk of Jap subs coming into LA/Long Beach Harbor etc. My father was wounded on Okinawa, and recovered in hospital in Honolulu awaiting participation in the landing on Japan's main island if needed.
So all my life my parents told me that I was living, because Truman dropped those bombs, which ended the war with fanatical Japs. Fanatical means beyond reason.
When your enemy is also fanatical, you have no alternative to kill, kill more, and kill still more until they are all gone, or those capable of reason prevail and surrender.
Inability to grasp the reality of warfare can be due to no knowledge. For the scholars among us, here is an early take on the "morality" of warfare, from the Abbot of Iona, Adomnan, refered to as "Cain Adomnan":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A1in_Adomn%C3%A1inFinally I was stationed in Germany in a mid-sized city which was repeatedly bombed. A model stood in the lobby of the City Hall (Radhaus).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombings_of_Heilbronn_in_World_War_II