Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
Actually, as I pointed out a couple of years back, the truly humane thing to have done would have been to sink a couple of them back then and let the occupants drown. That would have discouraged more from coming and saved thousands of lives longer term - as well as relieving Europe of a huge burden.

We're too squeamish to do such things of course. Ho-hum.
Thank goodness