“Of course you will not bother to learn what Trump said just snark and run away as usual.”
So this isn’t what he said? Feel free to correct me then.
“And the other thing is with the terrorists, you have to take out their families. When you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. They care about their lives. Don’t kid yourself. But they say they don’t care about them. You have to take out their families,”
We have a friend who lived in Dresden during the fire bombings of WWII. It is debatable whether Dresden was a true military target. It is estimated that up to 600,000 civilians were killed which is much more than twice the maximum estimated casualties of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. It is no secret that the civilians were targeted. The bombing with the most casualties took place on February 13, 1945. Germany’s defeat was already a sure thing. Victory in Europe was celebrated on May 8, 1945 less than three months later.
I have no idea how much the bombing of Dresden sped up the progress of the war... probably not by very much. But I also have no doubt that it contributed to the complete demoralization of the already losing German fighting machine.
The actual quote from Trump has no context in this article. And one would think that the GOPe could at least have found a “ground pounder” instead of a “flyboy” to accuse Trump of advocating war crimes. Then the charge might have had a little bit better chance of sticking.