Making a nation democratic (was: Why Do They Hate Us?)

[Robert S. Thau]

Joseph S. Barrera, III writes:
 > At 10/31/2001 04:01 PM, Russell Turpin wrote:
 > >Gary Murphy writes:
 > >>And pardon my playing the race card, but would we be as ready to bomb 
 > >>them if their civilian "hostages" were white middle class Europeans ..
 > >
 > >There is a one word answer to this.
 > >
 > >Dresden.
 > 
 > But those were Huns.

Atlanta.  I'm not about to defend the Confederates (who were clearly
fighting to preserve slavery, despite the whinging of their latter-day
apologists), but most of the residents of the houses and towns burned
out by Sherman were civilian by any reasonable definition.

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