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Operations by the RAF of a similar distance from base (e.g. the raid on Konigsberg of the 29th/30th August 1944 ) were only successful if they could avoid flying over the massive anti-aircraft defenses of occupied Europe. Any raid on Auschwitz would have involved Allied aircraft flying in substantial numbers over the whole of Germany, the Low Countries and much of Poland, subject to ack-ack and fighter attack all the way and at the absolute limit of their range. Ploiesti was bad, but this had all the potential to be much worse.

Any assertion that this is not so tends to ignore fact, as Mr. Homnick did on this occasion.

More importantly for conservative discourse, this approach exalts the ability of both the writer and the reader to emote above the power to reason.

We rightly condemn the "liberal" left for this -- none of us should follow the same path.

Israel has a better friend in truth and the balanced thought regarding future eventualities which Mr. Homnick seeks to display toward the end of his article.

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