Good article.
This country has largely lost it’s understanding of what war is all about. The Nazi Blitz against London killed 50,000 people — civilians. War is hell.
Assad attacks Aleppo? That butcher!!!
We attack Mosul?? Thank goodness those people will soon be liberated!!!
None of it is pretty. And I’m sick of the media trying to tell me how to feel about any of it.
I visited Vicksburg, MS a couple of years ago. Seems General Grant did pretty much the same thing to it that Assad’s doing to Aleppo. Then, of course, General Sherman expelled all the citizens from Atlanta and burned the city to the ground before starting on his march to the sea. BTW, Abe Lincoln approved both operations.
There’s no justification for any modern military force to cause casualties in a civilian population when it is re-taking the same f#%&ing city an endless number of times ... THIRTEEN F#%&ING YEARS after the “war” ended.