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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...)
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: 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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Exactly so. And Dresden was not a military target. There were no weapon industries there. But it was one of the most beautful cities in the world. It was German culture, and therefore the British and the Americans felt a need to destroy it. It might have been as many as 253 000 people who got killed during this terror attack against this city. I have no problems with the bombings of Berlin, but Dresden was different.
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