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In reply to the discussion: Why are drone strikes any different than the bombing of Dresden? [View all]JI7
(89,249 posts)21. Dresden was wrong even during a time of War
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There are theories that Dresden was bombed in revenge for the bombing of Coventry,
hedgehog
Feb 2013
#1
One result of the bombing was that people who lost their civilian jobs (say at a local bake shop)
hedgehog
Feb 2013
#9
"As John Galbraith showed after the war, strategic bombing accomplished little..."
Taverner
Feb 2013
#121
Well, it certainly wasn't in revenge for the innocent civilians murdered in the camps.
aquart
Feb 2013
#178
I've read Slaughter House Five a long time ago. I guess I should go back and reread. n/t
Cleita
Feb 2013
#7
Yes, he did and with all the on the streets reporting we were getting then, nary
Cleita
Feb 2013
#14
We had a Panamanian student at the college where I was teaching at the time
Lydia Leftcoast
Feb 2013
#72
I appreciate it when people correct me on my many mistakes. I never know whether
JDPriestly
Feb 2013
#139
The comparison comes more from the point that we were actually at war with Germany.
Cleita
Feb 2013
#19
I guess if your child gets killed or his legs blown off because you were in the wrong
Cleita
Feb 2013
#40
Absolutely nothing, but you have picked on a few words in my discussion and ignored every context
Cleita
Feb 2013
#49
And how many innocent civilians who died in bombing deaths have to stand on the head
Cleita
Feb 2013
#37
Really? One innocent death is as bad as 25,000 (not 250K per earlier post)?
geek tragedy
Feb 2013
#124
Phosphorous. That's nasty. Were the Germans upset to lose so many of their women and children?
aquart
Feb 2013
#89
That ship sailed long ago, since practically every Pashtun has a blood feud with the US
FarCenter
Feb 2013
#43
well, i guess that means we have to kill them all, then. to be safe, you know.
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#82
So now if you oppose the incineration of civilians you are a "pro-nazi".
former9thward
Feb 2013
#168
Now you are relying on support of a man many considered to be a war criminal.
former9thward
Feb 2013
#219
No Difference - Question Is - What Kind Of Society Do We Want To Be - Benevolent Or Terrorist?
cantbeserious
Feb 2013
#45
Dresden was bombed - as were other cities - to break the will of the German People
MannyGoldstein
Feb 2013
#53
1. Civilian Germans, though not guiltless, were not the S.S. 2. The SOVIET Army
WinkyDink
Feb 2013
#63
By "sacrifices of the Soviet people" you mean the civilians murdered by the Germans as they advanced
aquart
Feb 2013
#90
Yes, I do. Again: The Russians weren't murdered by German citizens, but by soldiers.
WinkyDink
Feb 2013
#144
You are trying to claim that one mass killing was okay, because there were others.
WinkyDink
Feb 2013
#145
Yup. Roosevelt refused to take in fleeing Jewish refugees, too. Sent them back to die.
aquart
Feb 2013
#180
WWII was about getting a nation to surrender. The drones are not about getting to surrender.
HereSince1628
Feb 2013
#64
First of all, anyone old enough to remember World War II at all is 73 years old
Lydia Leftcoast
Feb 2013
#76
It's less awful for 20,000 innocents to die than for multiples of that to die.
MannyGoldstein
Feb 2013
#98
If we can't agree on something as simple as fewer deaths is better than more deaths,
MannyGoldstein
Feb 2013
#100
Are carpet bombing or extrajudicial assasinations our only two options here?
MannyGoldstein
Feb 2013
#102
Drone strikes kill far, far fewer people, and cause comparatively minimal physical damage.
baldguy
Feb 2013
#97
Everybody seems to think it's not so bad because the numbers are fewer? Really? I'm seeing this
Cleita
Feb 2013
#111
Please spell out the process for arresting someone who's hiding out in a region of the world
baldguy
Feb 2013
#137
So you don't think neighboring countries could send in investigators into places like
Cleita
Feb 2013
#154
I think the other question is whether it was effective in ending the war more quickly...
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#114
It is always a risk and has happened. But the fact is that the Germans today don't
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#120
This line of thought always makes me uncomfortable. What happened in Japan and
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#125
So let's put a few war criminals on trial for a start, for setting up torture camps
just1voice
Feb 2013
#117
I agree and I'm still of the hope that our war criminals will be brought to justice in the future.
Cleita
Feb 2013
#119
No it isn't. Jeebus. Arithmetic tells us that one lost life is preferable to
geek tragedy
Feb 2013
#128
There is no version here. It's a universal that murder is wrong. Every tribe, religion and nation in
Cleita
Feb 2013
#135
Hmmm.... The Inquisition comes to mind. Also, Aztec human sacrifice (16th C.).
WinkyDink
Feb 2013
#140
I agree! As we have clearly seen in many ways, mankind perverts religion for power.
WinkyDink
Feb 2013
#197
They don't. Not really. Maybe some institutions like religions sanction it, but
Cleita
Feb 2013
#162
I gave you a source and many who study the Aztecs don't agree with you considering much
Cleita
Feb 2013
#199
Well, there is that little matter of orders of magnitude less infrastructure
kestrel91316
Feb 2013
#131
What I really think is that instead of considering dealing with terrorists as a police action,
Cleita
Feb 2013
#171
The Allies leveled Dresden indiscriminately. Drone strikes damage individual targets. nt
bluestate10
Feb 2013
#172
There is one enormous, undeniable, irrefutable, incontrovertible difference....
DreamGypsy
Feb 2013
#212
No nor can you change what happened at Hiroshima, Nagasaki, My Lai and Falluja,
Cleita
Feb 2013
#213