Asymmetric Warfare
The loss of innocent human life is always a tragedy, but as Ben Stein points out, civilized societies will always lose if they loudly proclaim and practice complete restraint in dealing with terrorists who are willing to hide among civilians. It's asymmetric warfare and it's unwinnable.
posted by LadybugUSA at 7:25 AM
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Once upon a time we did target civilians on purpose. Dresden was fire-bombed. Hiroshima and Nagasaki served as object lessons in runaway atomic fission. We did it to save our troops in the field and to bring an end to the war at hand.
It's terrible what happpened in Qana, Lebanon, and I blame Hezbollah all the way. Hezb' prevented the women and children from leaving the building they knew would be struck when they brought their rocket launcher to the site. (Weird how there were no men of fighting age among the dead.) Hezb spent hours after posing the dead for photos. Photos. (Graphic and distrubing photos. You have been warned.)
Still, even if the west were to collectively inflict staggering civilian losses on the people of Lebanon, Syria and all the way to Qom in Iran, I have the queasy feeling that the people we really want to defeat would CELEBRATE the losses rather than be discouraged. How does one best defeat a death-cult?
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