that he agrees with the decision to drop both bombs on Japan.
At the same time, Spector recognizes that the war was a horrible experience for both sides in terms of the costs of dehumanization. He does not whitewash the effect that the war had on the traditional ideals of Americans:
Americans came to abandon some of the principles which they had long upheld. A nation which had entered the First World War . . . out of opposition to unrestricted submarine warfare . . . chose to wage such warfare from the opening day of World War II. . . . American opposition to the Japanese conquest of China rested largely on revulsion against the Japanese use of air power on civilian targets, yet the United States itself initiated an unprecedented campaign of aerial bombardment against
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