rule303L Dresden was bombed, and it is questioned, yet the Nazis killed millions and we are to blame.

Just as John Kerry is not to blame for millions of dead South Vietnamese as alleged in the last thread, the Nazis are to blame for the Holocaust, not the Allies. But strategic bombing proved to be of limited value. The rail yard in Dresden was back in operation after three days. The firebombing of Tokyo in March 1945 would not have hastened the end of the war anymore than firebombing Mosul or Basra would have made Saddam bend. The benefits of targeting civilians do not overcome the moral cost (a lesson that seems lost on one BC regular who wants to carpet nuke a billion Muslims in retaliation for catching one guy with a panty bomb). That I speak the truth is seen in our emphasis on precision bombing rather than more and more lethal ways to eradicate whole populations.

Elroy: I’m thinking it will be about June 2010 when Obama will decide he needs to be a moderate. And almost noone will believe it. A one-term president is his destiny.

Hopefully when Obama leaves office he won’t leave America with eighteen percent inflation, fifteen percent unemployment, dozens of hostages in some Muslim hellhole, $250 oil, $6 gas, and Russian tanks rolling in the Ukraine.