Does Bombing get the results that regimes want?

IN ISLAMABAD
FOUR children on their way to school were among 19 people killed yesterday when a suicide bomber drove a pickup truck laden with explosives into a police station, in Pakistan's troubled north-west. Protected content

In my travels as an expat I was in Israel when I heard the sirens, of Iraq sending scuds - they narrowly missed the hospital that I was working in.

That aside seventy years ago London was bombed and this programme Protected content on ITV tonight recalls people who wrote about it - curiously my father who is 88 is on the programme reading from his diary that he kept at the time, during the blitz.

How many members have found themselves caught up in a war, bombed in a terroist incident?

Does bombing help the dictators - or does the carnage it causes ruin the regime?