Non Aligned States wrote:You mean strategic bombing, like in oh say, Dresden, had much more finesse to it? I do recall that the city was razed to the ground. Where's your outrage to that hmm? Or how about any number of cities reduced to rubble by artillery? No outrage on that either?
Dresden wasn't strategic bombing. The British bombers carried a heavy proportion of incendiary devices, rather than a pure high-explosive payload, which they would have used for actual strategic bombing. So - even at take-off, it was already established what the nature of the attack was to be.
Dresden was retaliation for the firebombing that german bombers had carried out on British cities (like Coventry).
Was it an outrage? Oh yes. We deliberately targetted a city with a strategic target... but we deliberately did not target that strategic objective. Which means we wanted to kill people and cause damage to civlian structures.
The only defence for that outrage - is that it was a retaliation. Some mitigation, perhaps - but it doesn't make it alright.
I'm not sure what you wanted me to say.