Human Shields and Choice

[Chaerophon]

A simple question: as a general, could you sit in your office, the war being, for all intents and purposes won, and, for the sake of some British sense of emotionally necessary "revenge", order the deaths of at least 135,000 people??? I'm sorry, your argument is nonsense! The British needed an emotional purge?

Sure they were terrorized. But they had won. The situation was under control. The logic of a nation at war be damned. It was wrong. Plain and simple. It can be dressed up however you like it, but not everything is relative. The bombing of Hiroshima was wrong too. Was it necessary - quite possibly and therefore it was, in some sense, 'justified'; however, I don't think that that is the case in Dresden and that is where the difference lies.