[investigateworld]

You are somewhat correct, Moral: "don't lose wars, particularly if you started them".
But until Christ returns, I think wars are awaiting us, particularly when those who start them think they will win.

Going back to the ETO, our air war was the "Second Front" that Stalin was howling about. Germany had approximately one million men assigned to ARP. Those superb 88MM cannons that were hamming our bombers, weren't ventilating Soviet tanks. And being of Irish ancestry, from a clan noted for speaking their minds, I don't think I'd be too happy speaking German. War is ugly business. But until He returns, I hope this nation remains willing to level anyone that strikes it.

[Wombat101]

Has little to do with Christ and his whereabouts, my friend.

It's a simple question: how far is a civilized society willing to go in terms of destruction? In recent years, the question has been answered fairly certanly: we now use GPS, laser and computer-guided munitions. We take pains to NOT hit civilian targets.

Some will pooh-pooh this sense of care about what we hiot as mere public relations. I'd like to think that having witnessed firsthand the damage that was done to civil society by indiscriminate bombing, that westerners have taken the moral aspects of war into account in a way their forebears certainly did not.