KaMiKaZe said:
If politicians and bleeding heart citizens didn’t handicap the soldiers we currently have fighting the whole thing could have been done with already. When we fought in WW2 we were a far more effective force due to the fact that the military was in charge of guess what the military. I know this is a novel idea but I think we should go back to it as it got results. Bleeding heart pacifists go ohh no we can’t have our soldiers blowing up that hospital or ohh no we can’t blow up that school where will the people go. Well if their armies want to hide weapons in it and fill it with people so that we won’t bomb it, they effectively take out some of our best weapons. World war 2 they have a ball bearing plant in a city lets say hamelburg and we need to knock it out, we wiped out the entire area around it. Collateral damage happens its called war for a reason and people need to realize that and stop hamstringing our military because those same people given the oppurtunity would not return those same courtesies back. They blow a building we blow up a block of buildings, they blow up a block we blow up a town, etc… they have to learn there are consequences and that its futile to engage in the activity. The israelis had it right before they stopped. they shoot a rocket they blew up the street it came from. They mobilize more rockets, israel levels every block they passed on. It may not be very clean or nice but no war is.
Eye for and eye basically, sure its been around for thousands and thousands of years, but that doesn’t mean I have to accept it as right. I think its wrong. Call me a bleeding heart, but I personally think humans are better than that. I don’t think what either side is doing is right. War and everything that comes with it may be necessary to survive in the past, but when it boils down to it, War is going to destroy us all.
Now you can think, “these people will never understand us, that they don’t want to negotiate.” I agree, some of them are hopeless. Simply taking them out, is indeed effective, but again is a step backwards in my mind in terms of our progression as a species. Blowing them up brings up more complex issues. Those blocks that were blown up, are gone now. Anyone who wasn’t an enemy who may have had friends/associations/families or anyone there, anything there, is now an enemy. You see the endless cycle?
I’m not saying we should give up our fights right this second, and I’m not dogging any soldier because of them I have the freedom to type this reply. The evolution of war has changed, and eventually it will change again. We will eventually have to evolve from warring altogether, or we will end up just blowing each other off the planet.