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Originally Posted by MK262
Secondly, the tactics we employed in WWII were due to the limited technology of the time. As someone who hasn't been in the military, but who has studied both International Law, the Laws of Armed Warfare, and the concept of Just War Theory, what you are arguing for is immoral and untenable in modern warfare.
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Your "immoral and untenable" comment bespeaks a complete lack of understanding about armed conflict/war. The ONLY immoral act in total war is losing when you have the ability to win. Though I might make allowance for including the stupidity of attempting to wage "humane" war. The sooner the enemy population can be forced to capitulate, the sooner the war is over and the fewer the atrocities/suffering of the affected populations. The world has not had a general or total war since WWII. The Soldiers I know all lose sleep praying the next one doesn't happen in the foreseeable future. Unfortunately, indications are as soon as Achmed IMANUTJOB gets his nukes (or the ISI sells him some) we'll see if Einstein was right about WWIV.
Interesting irony from someone advocating restraint that your screen name is the military designation for a cartridge adopted to make the 5.56 round a more effective "hadji killer".
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
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