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<blockquote data-quote="Mitch Rapp" data-source="post: 2602618" data-attributes="member: 332"><p>My opinion, as a non military guy who has basically only read a bunch of books....</p><p></p><p></p><p>We made war against Nazi Germany in an unrestricted way for the most part, I know we were cautious at times, but we leveled French cities and even killed French civilians (not to mention other occupied countries) at times because we knew winning the war had to take precedence. We fought unrestricted warfare against Imperial Japan, leveling whole cities and killing hundreds of thousands of theirs so we didn't lose hundreds of thousands more of ours. Since then we have not had to fight the Nazi's nor the Imperial Japanese as far as I know...</p><p></p><p>My take is that we have become fools thinking we can just make "lite war" on people and they will learn their lesson. Unless we do that which is hard, and ugly, as in kill every last one of them with vengeance and little thought as to the "innocents" who may die, then in the long run more innocents will die, both theirs and ours. Look at the predicament Israel is in, every 3-5 years they have to do what they have been doing for the last few months. We will be in the same situation until, and some could argue we already are, just not directly yet. </p><p></p><p>Ever seen the original Star Trek episode "A Taste of Armageddon"? Look it up on Netflix. I am not ever going to say that the wars we have waged did not have ugly consequences for numerous people, but war should be a terrible thing for both sides, them for what we do to them, and us for what they have forced us to have to do. Otherwise people won't think of it as a terrible thing to be avoided, and enough of them will survive to regroup and come back over and over and over again....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mitch Rapp, post: 2602618, member: 332"] My opinion, as a non military guy who has basically only read a bunch of books.... We made war against Nazi Germany in an unrestricted way for the most part, I know we were cautious at times, but we leveled French cities and even killed French civilians (not to mention other occupied countries) at times because we knew winning the war had to take precedence. We fought unrestricted warfare against Imperial Japan, leveling whole cities and killing hundreds of thousands of theirs so we didn't lose hundreds of thousands more of ours. Since then we have not had to fight the Nazi's nor the Imperial Japanese as far as I know... My take is that we have become fools thinking we can just make "lite war" on people and they will learn their lesson. Unless we do that which is hard, and ugly, as in kill every last one of them with vengeance and little thought as to the "innocents" who may die, then in the long run more innocents will die, both theirs and ours. Look at the predicament Israel is in, every 3-5 years they have to do what they have been doing for the last few months. We will be in the same situation until, and some could argue we already are, just not directly yet. Ever seen the original Star Trek episode "A Taste of Armageddon"? Look it up on Netflix. I am not ever going to say that the wars we have waged did not have ugly consequences for numerous people, but war should be a terrible thing for both sides, them for what we do to them, and us for what they have forced us to have to do. Otherwise people won't think of it as a terrible thing to be avoided, and enough of them will survive to regroup and come back over and over and over again.... [/QUOTE]
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