We must be willing to inflict casualties without regard to fastidiousness over collateral damage. We must take the attitude that we took in World War II that Germans and Japanese dying in their tens of thousands in bombing raids were paying the price for their folly in putting those regimes in place.
However, there is a huge moral difference between inflicting civilian casualties out of revenge and inflicting those casualties as collateral costs of victory. And it is quite another thing to say that one wrong justifies another. Finally, we have spent virtually every day since 1945 telling the world how heinous the Germans behaved while we turn a blind eye to the atrocities committed by leftists.
When we unequally lose these propaganda battles, we tend to lose the battle about who writes history and therefore we lose current events.
