The Return of Bomber Harris
On the eve of a major Israeli offensive after the failure of the Oslo Peace Accords and the wanton disregard of Iran's and Syria's proxies in the form of Hezbollah and Hamas in Lebanon and Gaza in throwing away any attempt at self government and peace with Jerusalem, its quite obvious we in the free-world partucular Israel and the United States are going to have to accept the fact that this is a fight to the finish, total war. The Bombai attack on July 11th seems already forgotten by a feeble Western predeliction to avoid any form of conflict. But, the Middle East reminds us that life is short and peace is as illusory as a mirage in the desert.
I've just recently come to the conclusion that the Islamic peoples have no qualms in attacking civilian targets for both terror and sadistic purposes. They naturally will say that the West vis a vis Israel has already killed their civilian populations by aircraft and cruise missles and whether we killed their peoples accidentally or not is inconsequential as far as they are concerned. Hence, the attacks on innocent civilians in bus stations and subways is justified with the Mohammedans. If then this is their modus operandi, then can we not also resort to such tactics in like manner? Yes, we can and history is our guide. When the Germans started WWII they were the ones who first bombed Warsaw, Rotterdam and London and various other towns and cities to reign down terror and destruction upon their enemies. Well, England responded in kind and Germany too were visited with bombers and came to endure nighttime and eventually daylight bombing raids from both British and American Air Forces.
Let us return to the days of yore and understand the man who "instituted" carpet bombing of German cities for the Allied cause during WWII and all the controversies it entailed. From Wikipedia:
Marshall of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Travers Harris, 1st Baronet (April 13, 1892 - April 5, 1984), commonly known as "Bomber" Harris, and often within the RAF as "Butcher" Harris[1], was commander of RAF Bomber Command and later a Marshal of the Royal Air Force during the latter half of World War II. In 1942 the Cabinet agreed to the aerial bombing of German cities by carpet bombing. Harris implemented the policy vigorously and encouraged the development of tactics and technology to perform the task more effectively. He was the architect of Great Britain's most devastatingly effective attacks against the Nazi infrastructure at a time when the country was limited in its resources and manpower.
Harris's preference for strategic area bombing over strategic precision targeting in the last year of the war remains controversial, because by this time in the war most of the senior Allied air commanders thought it less effective than precision targeting[2] and by others for the large number of civilian casualties and destruction this strategy caused in Continental Europe. Nevertheless, in a conflict where attacks on civilian targets had not only been initiated by the enemy but considered a largely acceptable aspect of 'total war', Harris' strategy was coherent and certainly dealt great damage to the Axis heartland.
Why do I bring this rather morbid subject up at all? My friends, we have come to a crossroads in dealing with Islamic Terorrism and the states that support them. If they will not desist from these actions then we must return to them a hundredfold what they have first brought to us. If we must choose who should perish, our kinsfolk or theirs, then why should we suffer when we have the power to bring death and destruction upon their cities as in the days of old. They have indeed embraced death over life and now we must become the Angel of Death in order to save them. Crazy you say? Then you have forgotten the past.
Harris was born in Cheltenham in 1892 during a visit by his parents to England, while his father was on leave from the Indian Civil Service. He was educated at All Hallows School in Dorset, his brothers were educated at Sherborne and Eton. Not considered academically gifted by his parents, he was given the choice of "either army or the colonies"[3] at the age of 16. He chose the colonies and went to Rhodesia (now Zimbabewa and Zambia), where over the next few years he flourished earning his living "gold mining, driving coaches [and] general farming"[3].
In 1914 at the outbreak of World War I, Harris joined the 1st Rhodesian Regiment as a bugler, and served with them in South Africa and in the German colony of Southwest Africa (now Namibia). In 1915 he returned to England and joined the Royal Flying Corps, serving with distinction on the home front and in France during 1917 as a flight commander and ultimately CO of No. 45 Squadron flying the Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter and Sopwith Camel. He claimed 5 enemy aicraft destroyed before he returned to England to command No. 44 Squadron on Home Defence duties and was awarded the Air Force Cross (AFC).[4]
After the war he chose to remain in the newly formed Royal Air Force. In the RAF he served in different functions in India, Mesopotamia (now Iraq and Syria), and Persia (now Iran). He said of his service in India that he first got involved in bombing in the usual annual North West Frontier tribesmen trouble. In Mesopotamia he commanded a Vickers Vernon squadron. "We cut a hole in the nose and rigged up our own bomb racks and I turned those machines into the heaviest and best bombers in the command"[5]. Harris also contributed at this time to the development of bombing using delay-action bombs, which were then applied to keep down uprisings of the Mesopotamian tribes fighting against British occupation. Despite the many civilian victims of these air raids, Harris is recorded as having remarked "the only thing the Arab understands is the heavy hand."
Rather prescient I have to say. The West has been awfully "gentle" in dealing with these terror states such as Syria and Iran. They have called our bluff and believe we will back down in the face of terrorism. They could be right. But if they are wrong then woe unto them for their sad miscalculations.
Harris quickly rose through the RAF hierarchy. In 1941 he was promoted to Air Marshal and Commander in Chief (C-in-C) of Bomber Command in February 1942[7]. At the time, the RAF's night bombing role had had little effect on the German economy. By 1942, however, larger numbers of four-engined heavy bombers were becoming available, allowing for a change in tactics.
Professor Lindemann was liked and trusted by Winston Churchill. Churchill appointed him the British government's leading scientific adviser with a seat in the Cabinet. In 1942, Lindemann presented a seminal paper to the Cabinet advocating the area bombing of German cities in a strategic bombing campaign. It was accepted by the Cabinet and Harris was appointed to carry out the task. It became an important part of the total war waged against Germany. Professor Lindemann's paper put forward the theory of attacking major industrial centres in order to deliberately destroy as many homes and houses as possible. Working class housing areas were to be targeted because they had a higher density and fire storms were more likely. This would displace the German workforce and disrupt and reduce their ability to work. Calculations showed that the RAF Bomber Command would be able to destroy the majority of German houses located in cities quite quickly.
The plan was highly controversial even before it started, but the Cabinet thought that bombing was the only option available to directly attack Germany (as a major invasion of the continent was years away), and the Soviets were demanding that the Western Allies do something to relieve the pressure on the Eastern Front.
Harris said at the start of the bombing campaign that he was unleashing on Germany "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." In his memoirs he writes "In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method".
It doesn't have to be this way but I'm afraid the Moslem may have reached a point of no return. May God have mercy upon their souls.
I've just recently come to the conclusion that the Islamic peoples have no qualms in attacking civilian targets for both terror and sadistic purposes. They naturally will say that the West vis a vis Israel has already killed their civilian populations by aircraft and cruise missles and whether we killed their peoples accidentally or not is inconsequential as far as they are concerned. Hence, the attacks on innocent civilians in bus stations and subways is justified with the Mohammedans. If then this is their modus operandi, then can we not also resort to such tactics in like manner? Yes, we can and history is our guide. When the Germans started WWII they were the ones who first bombed Warsaw, Rotterdam and London and various other towns and cities to reign down terror and destruction upon their enemies. Well, England responded in kind and Germany too were visited with bombers and came to endure nighttime and eventually daylight bombing raids from both British and American Air Forces.
Let us return to the days of yore and understand the man who "instituted" carpet bombing of German cities for the Allied cause during WWII and all the controversies it entailed. From Wikipedia:
Marshall of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Travers Harris, 1st Baronet (April 13, 1892 - April 5, 1984), commonly known as "Bomber" Harris, and often within the RAF as "Butcher" Harris[1], was commander of RAF Bomber Command and later a Marshal of the Royal Air Force during the latter half of World War II. In 1942 the Cabinet agreed to the aerial bombing of German cities by carpet bombing. Harris implemented the policy vigorously and encouraged the development of tactics and technology to perform the task more effectively. He was the architect of Great Britain's most devastatingly effective attacks against the Nazi infrastructure at a time when the country was limited in its resources and manpower.
Harris's preference for strategic area bombing over strategic precision targeting in the last year of the war remains controversial, because by this time in the war most of the senior Allied air commanders thought it less effective than precision targeting[2] and by others for the large number of civilian casualties and destruction this strategy caused in Continental Europe. Nevertheless, in a conflict where attacks on civilian targets had not only been initiated by the enemy but considered a largely acceptable aspect of 'total war', Harris' strategy was coherent and certainly dealt great damage to the Axis heartland.
Why do I bring this rather morbid subject up at all? My friends, we have come to a crossroads in dealing with Islamic Terorrism and the states that support them. If they will not desist from these actions then we must return to them a hundredfold what they have first brought to us. If we must choose who should perish, our kinsfolk or theirs, then why should we suffer when we have the power to bring death and destruction upon their cities as in the days of old. They have indeed embraced death over life and now we must become the Angel of Death in order to save them. Crazy you say? Then you have forgotten the past.
Harris was born in Cheltenham in 1892 during a visit by his parents to England, while his father was on leave from the Indian Civil Service. He was educated at All Hallows School in Dorset, his brothers were educated at Sherborne and Eton. Not considered academically gifted by his parents, he was given the choice of "either army or the colonies"[3] at the age of 16. He chose the colonies and went to Rhodesia (now Zimbabewa and Zambia), where over the next few years he flourished earning his living "gold mining, driving coaches [and] general farming"[3].
In 1914 at the outbreak of World War I, Harris joined the 1st Rhodesian Regiment as a bugler, and served with them in South Africa and in the German colony of Southwest Africa (now Namibia). In 1915 he returned to England and joined the Royal Flying Corps, serving with distinction on the home front and in France during 1917 as a flight commander and ultimately CO of No. 45 Squadron flying the Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter and Sopwith Camel. He claimed 5 enemy aicraft destroyed before he returned to England to command No. 44 Squadron on Home Defence duties and was awarded the Air Force Cross (AFC).[4]
After the war he chose to remain in the newly formed Royal Air Force. In the RAF he served in different functions in India, Mesopotamia (now Iraq and Syria), and Persia (now Iran). He said of his service in India that he first got involved in bombing in the usual annual North West Frontier tribesmen trouble. In Mesopotamia he commanded a Vickers Vernon squadron. "We cut a hole in the nose and rigged up our own bomb racks and I turned those machines into the heaviest and best bombers in the command"[5]. Harris also contributed at this time to the development of bombing using delay-action bombs, which were then applied to keep down uprisings of the Mesopotamian tribes fighting against British occupation. Despite the many civilian victims of these air raids, Harris is recorded as having remarked "the only thing the Arab understands is the heavy hand."
Rather prescient I have to say. The West has been awfully "gentle" in dealing with these terror states such as Syria and Iran. They have called our bluff and believe we will back down in the face of terrorism. They could be right. But if they are wrong then woe unto them for their sad miscalculations.
Harris quickly rose through the RAF hierarchy. In 1941 he was promoted to Air Marshal and Commander in Chief (C-in-C) of Bomber Command in February 1942[7]. At the time, the RAF's night bombing role had had little effect on the German economy. By 1942, however, larger numbers of four-engined heavy bombers were becoming available, allowing for a change in tactics.
Professor Lindemann was liked and trusted by Winston Churchill. Churchill appointed him the British government's leading scientific adviser with a seat in the Cabinet. In 1942, Lindemann presented a seminal paper to the Cabinet advocating the area bombing of German cities in a strategic bombing campaign. It was accepted by the Cabinet and Harris was appointed to carry out the task. It became an important part of the total war waged against Germany. Professor Lindemann's paper put forward the theory of attacking major industrial centres in order to deliberately destroy as many homes and houses as possible. Working class housing areas were to be targeted because they had a higher density and fire storms were more likely. This would displace the German workforce and disrupt and reduce their ability to work. Calculations showed that the RAF Bomber Command would be able to destroy the majority of German houses located in cities quite quickly.
The plan was highly controversial even before it started, but the Cabinet thought that bombing was the only option available to directly attack Germany (as a major invasion of the continent was years away), and the Soviets were demanding that the Western Allies do something to relieve the pressure on the Eastern Front.
Harris said at the start of the bombing campaign that he was unleashing on Germany "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." In his memoirs he writes "In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method".
It doesn't have to be this way but I'm afraid the Moslem may have reached a point of no return. May God have mercy upon their souls.
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