Well, you’re not squeamish about using the word kill in peace time, even though you are speaking hypothetically about war time. I don’t like that kind of talk. Say about me what you will.
Also, if as you suggest, ‘they’ start a war, and we fight back, then these people that you are targeting will have plenty of time (and pre-planning) to duck out of public vulnerability.
I wanted to express in my post how stuff like this (as in Yugoslavia) get far uglier and much much more complex then people can even come close to imagining... and there are sooooo many everyday people who may be in effect sticking their head in the sand, just want to go to work and school every day and have a somewhat normal life and are not caught up in all this radicalism, and wont deserve what would transpire. So don’t let yourself get sucked into dystopic fantasies as if that is something that can actually be managed. It can’t.
And yes, I agree war is NOT the first choice or the ninetieth way. It's only if it's forced upon us. The alternative - being shipped off to concentration camps or gulags is NOT acceptable. If antifa and communists take over and decide to kill us we need to be able to fight back effectively. That's what I'm talking about. IF we had to fight - how would we do it to LIMIT deaths...
Wars in the past were fought between the "common man" of one group against the 'common men' of another group. It's a system that works for 'elites' on both sides. But it's nuts in today's world. And it's nuts for 'the people' to fight such wars.
If a small violent group can "take over" than a small violent group of sheepdogs can defend. We would be defenders.
It would be a waste of time to try to take out individual antifa or commie members... they're the 'common man foot soldiers'...of this potential war.
If this horror comes about - we need to stop the people who would keep the war going. And stop the war in time to have as few deaths as possible. Solzhenitsyn had it right. The time to resist is before you're sitting in a gulag - forced labor camps. In the meantime we should use every lawful means possible to stop anarchy... and ONLY engage in war is war is thrust upon us. http://blogs.evergreen.edu/maymeg14/blog/2012/03/10/prairie-fire/