I certainly understand your argument. And you well could be right. But as I see it, sometimes you’ve got to take a stand and make a point - even if it’s wasteful, and will amount to nothing. Sort of like Patton firing his .45 at a passing German plane.
You just gotta do it, and do it now. History demand it.
RE: Patton shooting at plane....
Seems symbolic but did you see the movie Flight of the Intruder?
“....flying a Grumman A-6 Intruder during the Vietnam War over the Gulf of Tonkin towards North Vietnam. They hit their target, a ‘suspected truck park’, which actually turns out to be trees. On the return to carrier, Morg is fatally shot in the neck by an armed Vietnamese peasant. Landing on the USS Independence with Morg dead, a disturbed Jake, covered in blood, walks into a debriefing....”
The peasant took aim with a rifle, moved in the direction of the plane’s flight in the sky and took one shot, hitting the man in the neck.