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Originally Posted by merrylander
Sigh, well once more into the breech dear friends. ISIS does not follow rules because there are no rule dammit. They murder because they love killing people.
So exactly how do you propose punishing the ISIL guilty, they will not surrender themselves to the gendarmerie. Will some possibly innocents die? If there are innocents in Raqqah yes they will be casualties of war.
You still insist that I feel anger and hate and nothing could be further from the truth. There is a cancer in the mid east and it must be removed. If you can come up with a way that it can be done surgically without the removal of healthy flesh please tell us.
It dawns on me that the folks attributing anger and hate to me are the ones allowing their own emotions to get the better of them.
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I'd hate to hear how you talk when you
are under the influence of hate and anger. I truly can't imagine how a person can advocate and rationalize genocide of entire populations without being touched by emotionality. They must all be ISIS-supporters? A too-convenient assumption, sir. And as we've discussed before, we differ in our desire for the deaths of persons whose only crime is some level of assumed 'wrong loyalty.'
I'll admit to an emotion here. The emotion is called 'appalled.' Intellectually I know how this works, but I'm still surprised when a normally perfectly-decent person starts calling for the extermination of persons he calls bugs.
I would suggest that neither of us have the training or the specific intelligence of the situation on the ground to design a campaign to conquer and pacify the ISIS territory. But I doubt the effectiveness of bombing to wipe out an enemy able to shelter in deep bunkers, unless you are able to specifically target the bunkers with special weapons. I would suspect the casualties from 'carpet-bombing' to be 100 civilians per one ISIS fighter, or worse. You just wish for bombing because you imagine it to be an easy and painless-for-us way to kill an enemy you want killed. All this is by way of saying I don't think I assume the burden of generalship by opposing your desired air-tactics.