Pat's whole campaign for a revisionist rejection of our fighting WWII is just bizarre. Our bombing wasn't justified in light of Coventry, the East End, Warsaw, Rotterdam, etc.? Nonsense.
That said, the bombing effort produced checkered results, at best. The Brits couldn't hit much of anything of strategic value, bombing at night. U.S. losses from daylight bombing outweighed what value we got, at least until losses declined after we got fighter cover all the way to and from the target.
Research after the war showed rather than demoralize civilians, bombing tended to reinforce their resolve.
“Our bombing wasn’t justified in light of Coventry, the East End, Warsaw, Rotterdam, etc.? Nonsense.”
As I recall, in WWI the belligerents gassed each other without too much moral outrage, but zepplins bombing cities was a great atrocity. In WWII the morality pretty much flipped 180 degrees.
OUR trouble here is that we’re giving Pat Buchanan WAY too much credibility by even listening to what he has to say.
Terror bombing didn’t work. German industrial output continued to increase until the Ruhr was over ran.
It did however mess up the logistics.