Is all out bombing worth it?

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19. I drafted my replies 17 and 18 before seeing this post.

As to how to respond to the claim that more killing during World War II was a solution we should emulate today, my reaction was similar to yours. (My reply 17).

As to whether Al Qaeeda started this, I imagine Arabs would say something different. My reply 18 refers to something Ben Laden once said about the bombing of Beirut under Poppy. Of course, we invaded Beirut under Eisenhower too, but Ben Laden did not mention that, at least not in the video footage I saw. Arabs also used to say that, whenever Israel bombed them, they'd look up and see "Made in the USA." Of course, that was a metaphor, but I got the point.

We have done a lot in that region for New Jersey Standard Oil, first, and then for Israel. Whether we should have done all those things or not is way above my pay grade. I am just saying that I don't think Arabs would necessarily agree that Al Qaeeda started the whole thing. Whatever the whole thing is, it started about a century ago.

(To those tempted to say this post in any way says it was okay to fly planes into the twin towers, please resist that temptation. It doesn't.)