“...In August of 1940, two [Luftwaffe] aircraft ... jettisoned a negligible amount of bombs over London ...
So Churchill ordered the fifth bombing and the Luftwaffe began the blitz.”
HomerBohn and ilk must revel in their self-bestowed sense of moral superiority. How precious, that they bolster such by second-guessing the decisions and actions taken in the midst of a serious war, now three generations behind us.
Their stance is that much more odious: the people they are poormouthing are nearly all dead. Some did die, or endure great suffering and sacrifice, to afford modern critics safety, comfort, and leisure - to make invidious moral comparisons.
In any war, one can be moral, or be effective. To choose the first is to negate the second. Imbecilic; not all that moral either, at the end of the day.
As I read Bohn’s posting...the familiar strains of the march theme of Hogan’s Heroes began playing in my head as John Williams might have arranged and conducted it when he led the Boston Pops.(You know...musical variations of any simple tune where he adds wonderful extra codas fat with brass and cymbal crashes as well as always finding a way to slip in a hidden star wars type flourish as well...in this case...THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK)/sarcasm on!