[Arkle]

Two wrongs don't make a right. Forget that bit, did you?

You're quite right about the heroism of the Bomber Command crews. Their casualty rate was phenomenal. Many, if not most of them were (and are) human enough to feel sorry for the people killed in the raids.

[MadIvan]

Two wrongs don't make a right.

It's wrong to shoot Nazi pilots and soldiers then. They have wives and children and families and people crying for them at home too when they don't return. Since two wrongs don't make a right, we should merely let them walk all over us and be smug in the satisfaction that when they shoot and kill us and we don't shoot and kill them.

Sorry, won't wash. It's war. It was a war that they waged against civilians first, and by opening that door, they deserved the punishment they got in return. What else could they have expected when they cooked babies in their cribs in London, in Plymouth, in Coventry.

Regards, Ivan

[dfwgator]

Don't forget that some of those pilots who bombed Dresden also pulled Berliners chestnuts out of the fire during the Berlin airlift.