"That is how crazy we remain today. Attacking a civilian population from the air, with or without warning, with or without a declaration of war, has become for most of us simply one more symbol, like the Liberty Bell, of national pride."

Kurt Vonnegut, "Fates Worse Than Death", 1991.

Hasn't changed, for those people who have learned about war from their Rambo educational series.

Vonnegut, unlike most folks on this board, has seen mass violence. He lived through the firebombing of Dresden as a POW of the Germans. (Anothe target with NO military implications. The Germans deliberately avoided turning it into a military target, using it as a haven for wounded and refuges. It was bombed after the war, for all intents and purposes, was over. Simply Allied terrorism.

Arf