Bombing Vindicated is the title of a 1944 book by J.M. Spaight, an official in the U.K. Air Ministry during World War II. An anti-Semitic Web site actually offers the book online, which is the only reason why I'm linking to it.
Spaight's argument is quite simply that the saturation bombing of German cities by Allied bombers was perfectly justified. To say that this position has been disputed would be a marvel of understatement.
I believe the carpet bombing of Germany by the Allies was a war crime. However, I recently suggested in a diary that Israel respond to rocket fire from Gaza (or Lebanon, for that matter) with an exactly proportional response, i.e., the same number of rockets, with the same amount of explosive, fired right back in the direction the rockets came from, and — I guess this was the rub — without regard for where the missiles fell.
We'll do this diary in the form of an FAQ.
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