This passage is quoted in a recent James Bovard essay

This passage is quoted in a recent James Bovard essay on the murderous economic/diplomatic war that filled the

space between the two invasions. Chew on this: The definition of innocents gets to be a little bit unclear.

Americans and Britons: How different are your governments’ foreign policies from those of Osama bin Laden? Go

ahead and send the hate mail, but give an honest minute’s reflection to the question first.

I am not linking to this horrific article to discuss the politics of the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany,

fifty-nine years years ago today. I am linking to it to illustrate that war is always the most terrible method

nations can resort to in settling their differences. It doesn’t matter which side you are on; death and

suffering don’t play favorites. As so many have repeated this past year: war is the ultimate failure of

humanity.