(February 6, 2016 at 2:33 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:(February 6, 2016 at 2:18 pm)abaris Wrote: I don't know as much about the Japanese war as I do about Europe. In Europe, the US airforce was less indiscriminate as the British. Harris' outspoken goal was to unleash terror on civilians. The American goal was precision bombing, whatever that meant with the equipment they had back then. Yes, the participated in the bombing of Dresden, but they weren't the ones working on the firestorm, which killed most of the civilians. That again was a british recipe.
Well I suggest you read up on the Pacific theater and the US involvement. Nothing the US did in Vietnam compares. Clearly there were more war crimes, more intentional killings of civilians, more rape, more mutilation. Everything that people put on Vietnam happened far more in WWII.
Also the US dropped incendiary bombs on Dresden along with the British and in fact dropped almost twice the tonnage of bombs on the city as the British. I don't think the US gets any pass at all for Dresden. They firebombed the city with the intention of killing as many civilians as possible, same as the British.
Dresden was a horrific thing that really shouldn't have happened. It was nothing short of using terror to scare the german people. And the follow up actions (such as the aforementioned strafing of civilians) were just as bad.
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. For if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes unto you."
