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Originally Posted by scooter
This isn't just an individual thing... every major city clearing operation in Iraq erred on the side of thorough urban renewal through firepower. When stomping a city in 2005 an armored unit had a house IED that had some sort of chemical weapon in it slime a squad. They shortly thereafter lost a couple of tanks from underside IEDs, same neighborhood. Everyone pulled back and proceeded to hammer that section of the city with MLRS, artillery, tank main guns, and air dropped ordinance. Did they target discriminate? Sure... they aimed for the buildings. There wasn't a lot of hand wringing over the possibility that the civilians hadn't evacuated fully. We got hit by a VBIED the same day, it was a fun place.
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Totally get it, but I think it starts in our human nature. Then we develop as a village. Those that don't comply with the group are put in stocks, exiled, or hung depending on the crime. Outside threats were dealt with militias and usually the threat was eleminated rather than repulsed. This grows to become a nation, an "empire", that also wants to survive at all costs. Whether the threat comes from abroad or inside. We do whatever it takes to survive at all levels.
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