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The German people needed to be taught a lesson that they cannot start wars without paying a heavy price. That did not happen after the First World War, and it lead to the “stabbed in the back” theory, that Hitler was able to exploit, all the way to gaining power.

As far as WWI is concerned, it was a conflict that the imperial powers of Europe were hoping and waiting for, clueless about how technology would change the face war forever. No side was more honorable than any of the others and no side "deserved" to be victorious (except maybe for the latecomers USA, but then again, the Lusitania wasn't exactly an innocent, purely civilian ship, either). It can reasonably be argued that WWI started as a war on terror where the entente powers sided with the terrorists.

It took you two (2) sentences to say what I bloviated on five paragraphs about.......

The decision to bomb Dresden was a complicated one, just like using the a-bomb on Hiroshima. And I think we owe it to history to tell the whole story. So five paragraphs are necessary, even five pages would only be a short synopsis. It's when you boil it down to "na-na-na-na-na-na" you sow the seeds of malevolence.

PS, even THEY expected this sort of thing...Look at Goebbels whipping up the crowd at the Berlin Sportspalast in 1944 asking if they're ready for total war......of course the crowd yells "Ja!"and "Heil!"

You do know the whole thing was staged and used for propaganda purposes, exactly because the average war-weary German didn't believe the bullshit anymore? Goebbels himself called the Nazi "extras" used for the Sportpalastrede idiots who would jump off a ten-storey building if asked to.