Today’s wars are more akin to trying to kill a nest full of wasps with with an icepick.
We’ll never succeed and we’ll be stung again and again and again but the pseudo intellectual emotionalists can feel good about not harming the wasps that haven’t stung us yet.
The costs of our perpetual war alone are enough to bring us to our knees.
We simply have no need to engage in wall to wall cluster bombing of civilian population centers anymore ~ if we ever did. The leadership elites in every country are ours for the picking ~ anytime we want.
One of the reasons to remember Dresdom is it simply wasn't necessary to do that to conclude the war in Germany ~ besides, Dresden by any calculation was going to be occupied by the Russians ~ (Yalta 1945 Feb 4 through 11) ~ unless Stalin had simply given orders to McCloy to 'just do it ~ show them my mailed fist'
At least we aren’t “torturing” anyone...Drone killing is sooo much more “surgical.”
Sometimes we don’t have a choice when we fight evil...Hitler and the Japanese Emperor weren’t gonna stop killing until we made them say”uncle”. Now we get them to say” Bonjour Fools, come back again!”
I believe this country would be very different if more men and women were either in the service or maybe have spent a year or two in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan or other parts of the world that aren’t quite so accomodating to their infantile, narcissistic yammerings.