[wonders]

I understand your outrage. But if we kill civilians indiscriminately, then the terrorists win: we have become like them.

[Free_in_Alabama]

You are right of coarse. We should let them keep killing a hundred here, a thousand here while doing nothing. We wouldn't dare stoop to that level to win a WAR. Good thing people like you were not in charge during WWII. We wiped out whole cities in order to break the will of the enemy to fight. Those cities provided the personnel/materials/labor to wage war. We should have waited for the tanks to get to the front lines before destroying them. If we blew up the factory we could kill an innocent person. That makes a lot of sense. These cities and countries are providing the material to wage war. Those materials are people.

[Freemeorkillme]

Bull Puckey!

Unless, of course, you mean letting missiles loose without locking the target acquisition information into the targeting system of the weapon.(which would be an utter waste of munitions and money).

Oh yeah. One more thing. Japan. No, wait. We did target two cities specifically, so I guess your right again there with that pesky adjective "indiscriminately".

[JustAnAmerican]

"I understand your outrage. But if we kill civilians indiscriminately, then the terrorists win: we have become like them.

Good thing for us you were not running the show in WWII.

[TheCrusader]

"I understand your outrage. But if we kill civilians indiscriminately, then the terrorists win: we have become like them."

I'm not so sure about this. We didn't become like the Hirohito Japs when we nuked Japan, we simply did what was needed to stop the insanity and bloodshed. Then we all got back to the business of peace, freedom and prosperity.

Nobody wants a situation where America, Russia or any other power has to bomb an Islamic city to hell, but it looks like the Muslims are doing everything they can to force this situation. Slaughtering children like this cannot be taken lying down, and a simple eye-for-an-eye retaliation will not stop them or even slow them down.

Cowardly Islam has chosen an invisible battlefield, (called 'terrorism'), to perpetuate their age-old vision of an Islamic world by ridding the earth of "infidels". They kill women and children, and they hide behind women and children. They murder, they assassinate, they behead, they kidnap, they infiltrate, they hijack, they blow up buildings, they create havoc for the 'infidel' all over the world. If it does not cease rather soon I predict the end of Islam is just around the corner.

[jpsb]

Yes, that's why the terrorist won ww2.

[thoughtomator]

We shouldn't kill civilians indiscriminately. We should specifically target Muslim ones.

[Quix]

Also true and the other horn of the dilema.

At some point, overwhelming force is the ONLY thing such terrorists and even some people groups

understand at all.