Skittles:
The fact that Dresden was razed in 1945 puts end to that perspective. Even the staunch Churchill himself questionned the nature of the attack (admittedly having approved it previously).
Churchill was by that time morphing into post war politician from war time leader. That he betrayed Harris and BC who had been carrying out the Air Board's Directives is a comment on Churchill not on Harris. Why is Dresden (whose claimed losses in the raid have now shrunk 10-fold) the exception to all the other German cities laid waste? It seems to have been a knee jerk re-action to public opinion by Churchill to denounce it. We should be grateful I suppose that he didn't conduct the entire war on that basis.