“I guess they should’ve just had their MRE’s flown in.
Idiot.”
No, they should have paid for it. Idiot. Please tell me why you would burn the house, barn and take the silverware if you were hungry? Why insure the seed corn is destroyed if you were merely looking to feed yourself? Spare me your outrage. The method of operation was designed to cripple the civilian population. Brave servicemen looting civilians.
Most historically literate people know that.
That wouldn't include you, I take it.
The term you are possibly looking for is “scorched earth policy”.
Brutal, but it works.
One of America’s great ironic decisions was not to visit upon the Moslim world the destruction they have earned ever since they began to follow MadMo.
Yet, we used “scorched earth” against ourselves.