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[Bruce A Thompson]

Aren't you taking Dresden out of context?


Germany had plunged the world into war. Germany was sending V2 rockets into downtown London every night and conducting bombing raids over London when they could get through. Germany was also attempting to exterminate the Jews in Europe. They had already executed millions in their quest for that goal.

Dresden was a calculated decision whereby the will of the German people to back Hitler needed to be eliminated in order to stop the real carnage. While I agree that the civilians were not the warriors, they did make it possible for the war machine to continue. How many more people would have died in Europe if the will of the German people to continue the war effort had not been broken?

As for Japan. Every last soldier and leader was fully prepared to fight to the last man standing in their quest for world domination. Only the breaking of the will of the civilian population brought the war to an end.

WW2 was not a video game.

At stake was world domination and, frankly, your revisionist second guessing of the men who kept the world free is in very poor taste.
And there is nothing mainstream about your personal opinion that those same men are war criminals.