Cowhorse, I made neither a critical assessment nor put patriotism first. I posed simply the questions.
It was ment as a general assertion: 'since we have done it, it is righteous'.
If we want to learn anything, we have to clean our house thoroughly: was the intention of Bomber command to hinder German industry and military apparatus (in which case there were many targets more appropriate than Dresden), or were they simply trying their hands on burning a densely populated city (like Germans during the Blitz)?