And that was the unlearned lesson from the Boer Wars: What to do when your enemy doesn’t follow the accepted rules of war? Western Civ never learned and it continues to haunt us.
We had no trouble carpet-bombing Germans and Japanese in the 1940s.
We had no trouble carpet-bombing Koreans and Chinese in the 1950s.
We had no trouble carpet-bombing Vietnamese, Chinese, and the occasional (vigorously denied) Russian in the 1960s and 1970s.
We had no trouble carpet-bombing Arabs in the 1990s.
We’d have no trouble carpet-bombing Arabs and Persians today, if we didn’t have the “muslim brotherhood” running the country.