tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045565.post114345539306904153..comments2023-09-30T03:57:11.799-05:00Comments on ahistoricality: Our Criminal Past; Our Self-Deluded FutureAhistoricalityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04004964192885891003noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045565.post-1143596738488696262006-03-28T20:45:00.000-05:002006-03-28T20:45:00.000-05:00I've brought up the Auschwitz bombing issue before...I've brought up the Auschwitz bombing issue before: I think our failure to act will remain an unresolved moral failing for a long time. <BR/><BR/>The issue of Dresden, though, I can't agree with you. If the point of war is to <I>win</I>, then, as Grayling points out, area-bombing a city like Dresden is largely pointless (as the Nazis discovered, you can do a lot of damage to your own cause by threatening the well-being of people who aren't completely engaged in the war); even atom-bombing cities is worthless unless you're dealing with an opponent that cares enough about their own people to surrender (Hitler didn't and wouldn't; Japan, on the other hand, did).<BR/><BR/>If the issue is to inflict pain, then I don't see how we are terribly different from any terrorist or gangster.Ahistoricalityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04004964192885891003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045565.post-1143583583489322902006-03-28T17:06:00.000-05:002006-03-28T17:06:00.000-05:00Sorry, but the thought of the US and her allies bo...Sorry, but the thought of the US and her allies bombing the living crap out of Dresden does not exactly bring a tear to my eye. <BR/><BR/>Although carpet bombing Auschitz would have been a better idea.The Chainik Hockerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03207746929747440827noreply@blogger.com