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.
Of course, make that Tokyo was firebombed and Japan was nuked twice.
Minds, they have minds? One could never have guessed it by their elections of such leaders as herr hitler and G. Schroeder( their current leader).
There are several reasons for this, among them that there were no more targets left in Tokyo itself! COnventional bombing destroyed everything worth hitting.