> during the firebombing of Tokyo the US murdered 100,000 civilians

Are you arguing there was a war in which firebombing would have been useful but someone decided it was too mean?

Since WWII we invented better high explosives and stand-off precision weapons. If there were a strategic case for firebombing in a future war, have no delusions: it will happen. (Last year, incendiary weapons were used in “ in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Ukraine, and Syria” [1].)

[1] https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/11/07/incendiary-weapons-new-u...