sinkspur wrote above:
"Even in WWII, Dresden and Tokyo were about destroying ordinance factories and bombing methods were very inexact."
Claiming that "bombing methods were very inexact" sounds like something right out of the obama lexicon.
Have you ever looked at pictures of Dresden during and after the firebombing?
You've got to be hopelessly "inexact" to end up with results like that.
Such total destruction implies two things to me:
1. Intent, or, in lieu of that,
2. Incompetence.
Dresden had relatively little military significance, which is why it was left intact for so long.
At some point, it became necessary to "make an example".
And the Allies succeeded spectacularly at makin' it!