“Kill ‘em all, let God sort it out” has always been effective at ending wars.
Hopefully ‘airstrike’ and ‘artillery support’ are back in the tactical lexicon-!
If we had nuked Falluja right after they hacked our soldiers to death, burned them, and hung them naked from that bridge, this war would have been over years ago, and 1000’s of US soldiers would not be dead now.
The terrorists would of been lining up in lines 50 miles long to surrender, within days of the bombing.
Ironically even fewer Iraq's would be dead, since supposedly millions have been killed over the years, while only a few hundred thousand lived in Falluja
I guess you support the Inquisition that went along with the extermination of the Cathars.
Of course, it took more than 100 years after Arnaud Amalric uttered Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius for them to hunt down and kill (burn) the last person who didn't believe what they wanted him to believe.
Effective, if not exactly efficient, timely, or moral.