Now, you know it was W.T.Sherman who said that.
So, I figure, if a country starts a war then all they can really expect is HELL! Especially, if they are on the losing side.
So, hitler and tojo start a great BIG war... a world war.
Now, as as a result of their war-mongering, they began to experience, HELL IN THEIR VERY OWN LITTLE CORNERS OF THE WORLD.
I really like what old "W.T." had to say. HE WAS SO ASTUTE AND WISE BEYOND HIS TIME!!
Your point is great, that the Fascists (Germans, Japanese & Italians) had designs on world conquest and domination, they used violent, terrible means to attempt to achieve these objectives, therefore complaints or accusations about anything that happened in return cannot be taken with any degree of seriousness in light of the death and destruction they delivered. Dresden etal was justice administered.
At the same time, one always needs to be aware that the nature of war is such that it causes men to do immoral things, this is inevitable and unavoidable. Churchill, I believe, spoke and wrote of this. So while they definitely got what was coming to them, it seems to me that we had a higher calling, a calling to free men from the yoke and chain of Fascism, or Communism or Slavery or whatever evil men use to subjugate other men. And this is why the USA is such a great country, because as a people we have consistently responded to that call when it was needed.
BTW, I find the entire Dresden discussion pointless and a bit boring, I am confident our leaders then, and now, did the very best they can given the knowledge and gifts they have been provided. As with any human endeavor, mistakes were made, but so what!