To: Brett66
"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.
To: omega4412
And that is exactly what Sun Tzu says not to do: Do not besiege walled cities (stratagem of using the sheathed sword).
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