Dear Roger:

The US started modern total warfare with Grant and Sherman and continued with the bombing of Cities and civilian populations in Germany and Japan in the Second World War capped by the drop of the two atomic weapons. Obama is finally right on something. Both the natural law and the Church condemn this as a violation of just war theory. Some day we will pay for it in this country. It is never permissible to directly kill innocent people. The end does not justify the means. Shame on us.