Nebs said:
Wow, this is truly moronic. So, killing a million Iraqis for NO REASON isn’t good enough for you? Clearly you don’t realize that in this war, there isn’t a steadfast, declared enemy. You can’t win a war against an idea. We’re not at war with Iraq, just “terrorism.” This isn’t a battle to be fought with boundaries and conventional thinking. If we were to nuke middle eastern cities Ala WWII, nothing would change and nothing would be ended. No war would be won and the only thing that would be different is the amount of people who want to see America demolished.
There’s nothing wrong with a war on an idea, so long as you are given the resources to take it out.
Now answer me this, if our soldiers watch a group of insurgents shoot a rocket at one of our tanks and then run back inside a mosque with their rifles and launcher, are we within our rights to go in? That’s why we’ll never win this war, even when we know where the enemy is hiding half the time we can’t do anything about it.
While I agree that scortched earth is not the policy in this case, there are some Middle East related scenarios that will play out in the next few years where a scortched earth will be the only way to win. When Iran nukes Israel or one of our bases will you be ok with it then?