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Hitchens
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Originally posted by Spanky
I saw Hitchens on C-Span discussing the bombing of Dresden and Hamburg. He felt these actions were completely unecessary and unbelievably barbaric. He said the same of the fire bombing of Tokyo. These bombings were directed at civilians to kill their moral and he said, not only is that not acceptible strategy in war (to directly target civilians) but didn't work anyway.
He made a very comelling case.
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You could say the same thing about most of the strategic bombing in WWII, in that there wasn't much of an effort to hit specific targets. Indeed, I think I have said the same thing here.
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