[The Louiswu]

Killing their families will only make them fight harder.
I conclude that the extremeists we are fighting will never give up, they have no good reason to.
If they die killing US troops, they go to heaven, if they surrender they live under American rule
A no-brainer for a fanatic.

[milan]

Killing their families will only make them fight harder.

Possibly, but their families won't be producing anymore terrorists.

All I know is what has worked historically. Bomb their a$$es into the stone age...they are less likely to give you problems; Germany, Japan, and to a small extent at the end of the war, Vietnam. That was the only thing that brought the Vietnamese to the peace table...carpet bombing of cities we avoided for years!