War is hell.
Make that--War SHOULD be hell.
When war is hell, war ends and the peace lasts.
When war is fought like today's politically correct "don't attack the mosque" style, war goes on and on and on and on and on and on . . .
The firebombing of Dresden broke the will of the German people and made them hate war. Mission accomplished. It is too bad we didn't nuke them also. Tokyo was firebombed and nuked twice. The result? Sixty years later, Japan is our best friend and they hate war.
Germany is a sore loser. The stench from France must be blowing across the border and screwing with their minds.
Germany always has had a vested interest in bringing up their own suffering during WW2, and the bombing of Dresden
is as good an example as any. The only way they can mitigate the horrors of what they did is to try to create
some kind of equivalence in what was done to THEM. It is
sort of a hydraulic relieving of the awful pressure of collective guilt at having perpetrated something that they will NEVER be able to live down historically. The behavior of the Germans under Hitler will continue to be emblematic of just how unprecedentedly awful the behavior of the so-called cultured and civilized can be.
The title of this article is misleading. The ruling does not say that Dresden was a Holocaust. It simply rules that use of the word "BombenHolocaust" does not violate German laws against "Volksverhetzung" (basically hate speech) and "Verhamlosung" (trivialization) of the Holocaust.
As usual, rulings on hate speech vs free speech are a fine line but I think they generally made the right call on this one.
Goebbels asked for "Total War," he got it!!!
Calling the bombing of Dresden a "holocaust" is the same thing as calling the placing of panties on the heads of prisoners at Abu Grahib "torture".
There is a real loss of perspective here.