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To: Romulus
One war crime doesn’t justify another in retaliation.

Dresden was not a war crime by even the most ridiculous stretch of the imagination.

The Nazis used Coventry to test something they wanted to try out - the Allies bombed Dresden for a specific strategic purpose: ending the ability of the Nazis to continue the war.

Dresden saved the lives of at least 100,000 Americans and certainly of more Germans than leaving it alone would have.

77 posted on 08/23/2007 8:23:27 PM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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To: wideawake
Dresden saved the lives of at least 100,000 Americans and certainly of more Germans than leaving it alone would have.

C'mon, that's more wishful thinking than reality...
81 posted on 08/24/2007 1:54:29 AM PDT by wolf78 (Penn & Teller Libertarian - Equal Opportunity Offender)
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To: wideawake

Yes it was. The Allies explicitly acknowledged and embraced the tactic of “terror” bombing (the word appears repeatedly) of civilians. One Army Air Corps general, one Frederick Anderson, rationalised the slaughter of German civilians at the time, expressing the pretty concept of terror bombing as morally edifying: terror bombing was: “not expected in itself to shorten the war ... However, it is expected that the fact that Germany was struck all over will be passed on, from father to son, thence to grandson; that a deterrent for the initiation of future wars will definitely result.”

Isn’t it funny how what goes around comes around? The Germans learned the lesson all too well — pounded into them by an America that, having long ago forgotten its services as moral instructor to the German people, has discovered a latter-day horror of terrorism. Sure enough, the Germans declined to be a part of the current adventure in Iraq — and are despised for it by the sons and grandsons of those bomber crews.


85 posted on 08/24/2007 7:15:26 AM PDT by Romulus ("Ira enim viri iustitiam Dei non operatur")
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