Like torture, it is not clear whether the bombing campaign was worth the effort, or whether the consequences of stiffening the resolve of the enemy was a worse outcome. Like torture, it is an example of insufficient imagination -- a belief that the enemy is a lesser being, and not like us at all.

On the other hand, as my father used to say (he was a much decorated British bomber pilot who survived the catastropic odds), when the war began there was nothing much else to fight back with.



yours,

Peter T.