[TomasUSMC]

combined forces put about 70 percent of the insurgents to death from above.

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So whats the problem, if there just 30 percent left, get them too, quit when you get to 98 percent. It would have taken just a few days for that last 28 percent.

Instead we gave victory to the losing 30 percent.

[LS]

Sorry, bad logic again. As you know, getting the last 5% of anything increases the costs exponentially far beyond all value.

We NEVER killed all the Japanese on the islands we cut off. We just left them there to starve or give up. None were ever a problem.

But worse, according to your logic, you would ADD another 200,000 jihadists to the equation by killing people who really had no issue in the conflict. Not good strategy.