But hard pressed to argue that waging war against innocent civilians was against accepted ethics? I hardly think so. It was considered unacceptable by the civil

But hard pressed to argue that waging war against innocent civilians was against accepted ethics? I hardly think so. It was considered unacceptable by the civilized world in the 1930s[1]. WW II rapidly saw it become the norm, as tit-for-tat spread. [1] https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/ww2/projects/firebombing/targeting-civilians.htm https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/ww2/projects...