if ti makes a difference, i'm not condoning the wholesale slaughter of women and children by the army sweeping and gunning them down, i am, however an advocate of dropping a nuke.
Yes, nuclear weapons make things so much less personal don't they. I suppose then that your advocacy would collapse if we did not have such weapons.
if the city surrenders as in verse 11 then we accept surrender and try to teach them what is right. but we both know that the islamic nation won't, for they think that their god has sent them to kill all of us.
nuclear weaponry makes this kind of genocide much easier on our (collective) conscience, but without this technology there would have to be a much tighter discipline of soldiers to commit themselves with this kind of resolve. i do not know if this kind of warfare would even be possible in this society.
i wish i had been able to ask german soldiers 60 years ago -or any soldier that has be ordered to commit genocide- how they were able to send people into their deaths. does it come to those soldiers merely following orders, were they fanatics that truly believed that this was right, or were they of the (atrocious-imo) mind set that enjoyed the killing?
i believe that we've given them plenty of chances. we have take war to their homes and they have run. we have followed them and they have run again. all the time committing more atrocities in the name of their God. perhaps its not been an organized fight, but it has all been done with the same justification. imo our wars have become too humane. if you punish a child with a rod they will learn, if you punish with a feather they will forget the punishment and continue to do wrong.