“Turning Iran into a waste land and killing thousands of “innocent” men, women and children to be rid of a very small percentage of its population, just doesn’t make sense.”
Good thing you weren’t around in 1944.
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Putting captive citizens at risk of injury or death, a collateral cost of warfare, is sometimes unavoidable, especially when the military presence of the enemy hides behind these unwilling hostages. But their lives and property were already subject to being taken by the enemy combatants. Sometimes there is no choice at all.
Islamic Jihadists are very ruthless people.
Different war, pal, when was the last time your drove a 1944 auto?
1944 was on a par with thousands of warriors facing off to the death in a muddy marsh. I.e., 1944 and everything before it has rapidly become obsolete. See for instance, weapons-bearing high-altitude drones and subsurface sea drones.
The size of today's world along with the state of miliary technology suggest something more efficient is in order, something that will not turn of the light switch to mankind when ignited.