Dave Lindorff: "Obama, Seeing Darkness, Conjures Up the Mists of Time" - This Can't Be Happening!

One of the scariest damn pieces Dave has ever written. [Excerpt]  ... Back in 1965, as a 15-year-old kid, I had a chance to spend half a year as a student at a boy’s gymnasium (high school) in Darmstadt, the cultural capital of the German state of Hesse, which had the distinction of having been one of a handful of cities in Germany (Dresden was another) that were selected by the Allies to test out the terror tactic of firebombing. The town was chosen for incendiary bombardment precisely because it had no military value and thus, no air defenses (and because it consisted mostly of wooden structures). ... Read more.