Posted on 04/12/2005 4:46:09 PM PDT by SJackson
Yes I do, would you wish a different outcome on these events? You use what you have as allies when you're against the wall. When one's starving the fly fisherman does not worry about wet or dry.
Mmmm hmmm.
Thank you!
And YOU are indefensibly a nazi apologist!
"Es nimmt zwei, Tango zu tanzen."
"The German people should thank God, and the allied forces their army didn't hang on another 12 weeks."
Truer words never spoken.
Hate to break it to you, but there are a lot of books I haven't read. Unlike you apparently. Can I assume you've read every book in the world? Sorry you can't accept an honest answer. I could have lied and claimed I read it.
Just think about it: does hate make you into that which you hate?
Seeing your posts on this thread is evidence that it does.
Read the book ..... before you make false statements.
Show me a false statement I made.
London didn't burn down.
The justifications for burning Dresden change from time to time, but so far no one has anything really convincing except maybe they didn't like the Dresdener's cousins in Indianapolis ~ maybe it was just Bomber Harris' way of "getting back at" Chenault or other Americans with an Indiana address.
The whole event is covered by the grandson of one of the former inhabitants, Kurt Vonnegut. He was there, on the ground. I don't think he particularly enjoyed it.
German surrendered before nukes were even invented!
I did not claim that either you or I had read every book in the world. I just don't understand how you dismiss this book in the way that you have if you don't know the author and haven't read the book or even more than one review of it.
I suppose if it threatens your world view, you might want to avoid it.
Very true.
I've seen that book advertised. It's an attempt to excuse the terror-bombing of Dresden. Pretty low, IMHO.
Dresden was bombed because of it's rail lines and it's ability to resupply their troops. The Germans had to be utterly destroyed. They had to lose the very notion of waging war...and they did.
They got their comeuppance.
I know my brother killed a bunch of SS and other German soldiers and he said he felt like he was part of a vast American military that was literally the saving of the USA.
I know we did a lot of killing of commies in Korea but to me, it never felt like we were finished with the commies because they were still in power in other places in the world... you know the Soviet Union, China and so forth.
My brother said he felt like a REAL FORCE FOR EVIL was defeated when the German nazis were brought down to total defeat.
Inasmuch as the atom bomb was developed and used AFTER Germany surrendered, you'd probably hurt quite a few American occupation troops if you'd tried dropping nukes.
War is Hell!
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