[omega4412]

"Modern precision warfare also seems to be a more humane method of dealing with rogues than traditional decade-long suffocating sanctions."

Absolutely. Sanctions are a modern form of siege warfare. And it's always the civilians who suffer most in siege warfare.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

And that is exactly what Sun Tzu says not to do: Do not besiege walled cities (stratagem of using the sheathed sword).