Tuesday, November 11, 2014

On the London Blitz

The Blitz officially started on September 7, 1940. The British bombing of Berlin started a good two weeks prior to that. Yes, the Germans did bomb Rotterdam prior to September 7 but that was a) a mistake (the Dutch were planning to surrender but the notice came too late) and b) complicated by the fact that Rotterdam was a garrisoned city and, hence, arguably a legitimate target. Look, I'm not saying that either side has all that much of a moral high-ground here (the end-result being a nauseating and seemingly endless tit for tat; Munich a response to Coventry, Coventry a response to Berlin, yada yada) but for our "side" to constantly say that WW2 was the one just war and that if you ever dare to disagree with that you're suddenly pro-Hitler, I'm really starting to resent that. I am.

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