I heard an interesting comment on Dresden from a Veteran of the RAF Bomber Command recently:
"For One thing....Germany started the war....we didn't. Two....for every day of the war Germany averaged the slaughter of 10,000 people per day."
Out of curiosity I did the math, and it worked out correctly, and perhaps even a bit under.... to 21,120,000 people in 6 years. In Russia alone it has been estimated that the Nazis killed 19,000,000. The RAF veteran also pointed this out, noting that you seldom hear anything about the tens of thousands of innocent civilians killed during the seige of Leningrad.
Certainly, all loss of life is tragic in war, but I would have to agree that far too much has been made of the bombing of Dresden when you look at the Big Picture. That's my opinion anyway.
Jim 