The lack of evidence against Bin Laden

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Fri Sep 14 12:54:38 PDT 2001


At 08:41 PM 9/14/01 +0100, you wrote:
>At 06:12 PM 9/14/01 +0100, Wojtek wrote:
>
>> In the same vein, the bombing of Dresden and Berlin was
>>an acceptable price to pay to defeat Hitler.
>
>By the time Dresden was bombed, the defeat of Hitler was all but
>inevitable. It's because it was so gratuitous that it remains so
>controversial, isn't it?
>

Technically true. What I meant to say that the destruction of Germany, a terible thing indeed, was nonetheless justified by the larger goal of defeating Hitler. Ditto for islamist terrorism.

wojtek



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