Proone:
Harris wasn't enobled because he lacked one thing, the ability to do as he was told by his superiors in the Air Ministry, the Directorate of Bomber operations and the Chief of the Air Staff.
Er no, he wasn't ennobled because the Attlee Government thought that it would send the wrong message to our new allies, the Germans, and to our new potential enemies, the Russians. As to his superiors in the Air Ministry, they were as treacherous as Churchill in disowning the man and his Command that had carried out their orders. He carried out their directives to the best of his, and more importantly his aircrews', practical ability.
Sir Stafford Cripps and others may have had their qualms about the effects of large scale Strategic Bombing raids against German cities on the inhabitants but Harris was more concerned with taking the war to Germany, the only British Commander able to do that to any appreciable extent. Of course you can despair at the destruction to historic cities, rage at the loss of life, civilian and military, on both sides. I do too. It's called war, and once you have entered into it you must conduct it to the fullest extent possible until victory is yours, lest it slips from your grasp. It is only because that victory was won following Kursk and D-Day, both arguably only possible because of the "Battle of Germany" that preceded them, that we can indulge in this endless argument. I would prefer though that it had not been started with such heartless abandoning of those who had fought in Bomber Command, not least of all by other senior Air Officers, as you rightly point out. I suppose though, given the treatment of Dowding and Park earlier by them, that we should not really be so surprised.
Having said all that can we please have this argued out elsewhere? This is a thread honouring duty and sacrifice, not the rerunning of WWII.