[Torie]

The gratuitous killing of civilians in WW II was wrong too. Dresden comes to mind. Also, bombs were cruder then, so there was more collateral damage, and we were about defeating German and Japanese military machines and as nations, who had the support of their populations, not liberating them in the sense of freeing them from their oppressor. In any event, we defeating the Iraqi military in short order. What is going on now, is not about defeating a nation's military. But then you already knew all of this. But I took the bait anyway. Shame on me.

[Mark in the Old South]

You have been taking too many history courses taught by liberal professors. Dresden was a strategic industrial city, it was a legitimate target of the war effort. We did not have the pinpoint targeting of our bombers then.

It is a pitty but Dresden was not bombed because it had people only.