| Greedy,Greedy,Greedy |
10-25-2012 04:31 PM |
Re: America, fuck yeah!
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Originally Posted by taxwonk
(Post 474001)
Dresden represented a qualitative difference. That particular campaign was aimed largely at the civilian and refugee populations with the identified aim of driving a wedge between the people and the government. That wedge should be familiar; the Brits taught it to the Jews in Palestine. The Arabs learned it from the Jews. It is now one of the primary aims of most military and paramilitary actions.
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Actually, Dresden was no Jericho:
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So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the awall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
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When the Israelites were done, only one harlot survived. And, lest we forget, they dried up the rivers of Jordan first, just to invoke terror. Part of the reason the Israelites killed off whole cities and everyone in them as they conquered Jordan was to invoke a good healthy fear of the Lord.
Not much of a qualitative difference in what happened in Dresden. |
