Indeed you didn't. But you jumped immediately very strongly to one question, rather than to another. You have been conditioned all your life to question the decisions of the enemy, but to never, ever question the decisions of your own side.
Or maybe I was making a conscious choice to comment on the one but not the other. In the last 20 years or so, there's been a wide reconsideration about the morality of dropping bombs (whether nuclear or conventional) on civilian populations during the war. I don't think we need to have yet another conversation about that. Instead, I'm trying to understand the Japanese viewpoint, where they get a telegram that 100k people have been killed in a raid and think "Bummer, but we fight on!".
