Truth > Comfort On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:18 PM, denstar <[email protected]> wrote:
> > PBS did a special just on Dresden, I think it was part of the Ken > Burns deal, but I could be mistaken. I think I posted something about > it here when it was on. > > If that special was to be believed, the goal was terrorism, basically. > > We did what we swore we'd never do -- and arguably got into the war to > prevent -- mass slaughter of innocent people. > > What do you guys think about dumbing down history for the young ones? > Or dumbing down math for the young ones? > > Is it better to ease people in, or just let 'em know? > > Personally I roll with "let 'em know". > > :Den > > -- > Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop. > Ralph Novak > > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Medic wrote: > > > > Dresden was not necessary at all. And it needlessly destroyed a beautiful > > city. Dresden had little to no effect on the war. The war was already as > > good as over. The bombing of Dresden was to make the Germans pay. That's > it. > > It had a train yard, sure, but the rail infrastructure was already > destroyed > > so the train yard wasn't a target of any value. This was simply a bombing > to > > kill civilians and destroy the (arguably) most beautiful in Germany. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:318468 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
