McNamara and the "Fog of War"

I do indeed think that firebombing and nuclear bombing was just a bit too much. War is a terrible thing, a lot of people die; but no war is an excuse for genocide and extermination. Because from where I stand, burning over half of the population of every major city in Japan comes pretty close to those two terms. So yes, proportionality should be a guideline of war. I think this lesson was followed in WW II but with enormous amount of exceptions, like bombings in Japan and Holocaust. It is a lot easier to say now if someone should or should not be prosecuted for a war crimes committed during a war that was over half a century ago. That primarily depends on who wins the war, because not only the victorious side will get into the history books, it will most likely get to write history books; with its own version of what happened during the war. If the Germans and Japanese would have won the war, I have no doubt McNamara, LeMay, and many other people would have been prosecuted much like Axis officers at Nuremberg. I also think the war in Iraq cannot be compared to WW II, because this is a different kind of war, a guerrilla war. However I do not think we are making the same mistakes as in Japan, but I also do not know all the details of the war that is going on so it very possible I’m wrong.