Originally Posted by Pogo

From a previous post:


He's referring to the South and to political power. The very reason we had to resort to such raw, naked power was because we had no support outside the urban areas, and that support was only on account of our dumping money on the population.

In essence, I think you could draw a parallel to what we were doing in our bombing campaign to what Stalin did with respect to collectivization/industrialization, in that they were both brought about by monstrous brutality. Which is not to say that our depredations match Stalin's in scale, but that we certainly didn't shrink away from the means necessary to bringing about forced urbanization.