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: Wasn't it rather typical for the way Britain
: has fought wars? Let's not forget Britain's
: and USA's destruction of Dresden during the
: Second World War. An act of pure terror.
: (And the Americans are upset about the
: incident that occured on 11 September
: 2001...)
This is a different (not necessarily "worse" and quite possibly "less bad") category than either terrorism by a non-state actor (9/11) or indiscriminate bombing (Dresden, Hiroshima, the Blitz). I intentionally described it as one of the great "cultural atrocities" in that this was not an attack on people (the Palace was empty of people at the time) but a direct attack on the enemy country's cultural heritage. In this sense, as I said, it is similar to the destruction of the Buddha statues by the Taliban or the Timbuktu Mosques by al-Qaeda.
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