With one exception, he said there was no military objective or advantage that could justify the attacks.

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Milton has to justify or at least understand this seemingly incomprehensible and unjustifiable event. It's this drive to theodicy that accounts for the poem's most painful moments.

弥尔顿要解释，至少要理解,这看起来不可理喻，无法解释的事件,这首诗最悲痛之处正是源于这斯奥迪斯的动力。

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