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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (82702)	3/16/2003 7:57:33 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) of 281500

>>dozens of cities in Europe and Japan, for years. A systematic campaign<< The Allies systematically bombed dozens of non-military targets for years? I don't think so. That's why Dresden is considered remarkable. It was tit-for-tat for Coventry. Didn't work, either. Neither worked. Just pissed everybody off. That's the main reason nobody does stuff like that anymore. If it worked, maybe they'd still do it. Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on the other hand, were legitimate military targets. And, by the way, I don't think having lawyers approve targets is a bad idea. Prevents our military from being prosecuted for war crimes. Now that we have more precision in bombing. Which, by the way, is why they didn't usually waste time bombing civilian targets during WWII. All they could do was just drop the bombs and hope it hits something worth hitting, so they'd try for target rich environments.

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