Indeed, and Curtis Lemay - head of the firebombing campaign on Japan and later head of SAC, the nuclear arm of the US Air Force - was the primary proponent of the theory that War should be so bad and brutal for the purpose of ending it swiftly.

"The New York Times reported at the time, "Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, commander of the B-29's of the entire Marianas area, declared that if the war is shortened by a single day, the attack will have served its purpose." This view was later echoed by Japan's former Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe, who said, "The determination to make peace was the prolonged bombing.""

War is hell, as you saw first hand, and those of us who are charged to execute it want it to end as quickly as possible.