This is what happens in war. You kill the enemy. Not just the enemy soldiers, all of the enemy. The women that birth the soldiers and the chdren that grow into soldiers and soldiers’ mothers.
The Muslims understand that. They kill any jew or Christian they can capture, soldier or no. Only our weak wussified society has forgotten that and gives in to its women bemoaning the death of innocents. There are no innocents. They will kill you if they can.
Even the women, on that last. Read the last verse of Kipling’s The Young British Soldier. I wonder if they even teach Kipling in British schools any more?
I know a female National Guardsman who went to Afghanistan as some sort of liaison with the idealistic belief that she was going to help the Afghan women. After a year she says “F em”.
They’re just as bad or worse than the men. She said they smiled in her face and happily called her a Christian whore only worthy of death. They counted military personnel and weapons so they could send the kids to run the info to taliban men.
It can be argued that anything done to shorten an evil war is justified. But I'm torn by that.
Here's a hypothetical: Suppose in 1863 Lee had chosen to go for Pittsburgh instead of Gettysburg. And let's suppose he was able to capture Pittsburgh.
Now, Lee certainly would have been morally justified in burning Pittsburgh's foundries. those foundries made cannon for the Union army. But would he have been justified in killing all the skilled civilian foundry workers?
Certainly that's a very poor parallel with WW II. But I wonder...your thoughts?
It’s how you get to unconditional surrender. It’s how you stop the construction of a guerrilla movement. It’s how you fight war.
“It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it.”
Robert E. Lee, Statement at the Battle of Fredericksburg (13th December 1862)
US-Confederate general (1807 - 1870)