I get confused by water boarding. I think it is torture but some think it is just reasonable pressure. Hm

I see some american university has just repeated the student torturing experiments of the 1960s where they proved that good upright students will torture anyone if they are told it is a good thing. So if we put these two ideas together....

When American GIs were water boarded by Japanese in WWII we prosecuted it as a war crime

Now apparently we've refined the technique so that it is no longer torture - go figure

War is Hell Patton says and folks and even countries do things that are simply uncivilized - Abu Grab (sp?) to wit

Hindsight is always 20/20 vision, of course. By that stage in an exhausting war, most people accepted almost anything that would get it over.

There was some public opposition to the policy of carpet-bombing Germany, but for quite some time bombing was about the only thing that could be done from Britain, and as time went on, feelings were hardened and coarsened - more a case of "If that's what it takes" than a thirst for specific revenge.