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Originally Posted by Guest
I hear you but wars are not fought on convenional front lines anymore. The foreign troops mix in with the civilian population when they have struck and fought.
It basically sounds as if your solution would be to blow up the entire area to get rid of the evil forces - but the amount of civilian casualities would reach the tens of thousands. We would be responsible for destroying the innocent people as well as the ones who need destroying.
How do you resolve that situation?
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Dear Guest: I hear you too. You are referring to a "just war" one where the moral imperative is invoked to cause no harm to the innocence. It is a concept deeply espoused by the left. (From Joe Angione recent column)
Such an idea is peaceful indeed but war is by nature ugly. So a "just war" is an oxymoron. I do not say this lightly and without compassion but if we follow a strict adherence to this "just war" concept then we will create substantially more loss of live because we will allow evil to continue to grow and fester.
America and Americans need to regain the resolve we had during WWII. We let down our men in Vietnam and we did so with Iraq
As ugly as it is the only way to fight a war is to fight to win. The human race's history has demonstrated that over and over and that's the human experience and that's the limit of nature which some people just can't grasp
Finally remember ISIS has no such restriction and eat their own. It becomes the lesser of the two evils. Will America re-learn that lesson before it becomes too late? How many more innocent people will die needlessly because our leaders don't have the guts to do their jobs? Is it they like the prestige and the perks but can't make the decisions they were hired for?
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