Quote Originally Posted by rhensley View Post
War is not clean as you put it anyway. A terrible waste of life. It's unfortunate everyone can't just sit down at a keyboard and just talk. There is a phrase in a book I have read that said that there will always be war. I can't quote chapter and verse but it appears to be true.
No war is not clean but it does have rules that combatants are supposed to follow like the Geneva Convention. Peoples attitude shift in times of war.

There was a large outcry against the German bombing of civilians during the Spanish Civil War, Guernica, and at the bombing of Rotterdam and Warsaw at the beginning of WWII. That attitude miraculously shifted to supporting the Allied bombing campaign of German and Japanese cities later in the war. The massive destruction of fire bombing Hamburg and Dresden are standouts as well as the near obliteration of Tokyo by fire bombing. That shift in attitude ultimately lead to the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki being palatable and justifiable to the public.

No war is not clean and ultimately means giving more and better than you got. Nobody is clean or blameless in the end.

Bob