I didn’t know your reflection could show in my mirror. You seem to think war is about police and courts and judges, that it is about playing nice and being harmless. Because of your liberal type we lose wars as you complain about the violence. Pussy.
You are correct CodeToad. We lost our way the moment we began trying to separate populations from their governments. People are responsible for who governs them. Period. Even in totalitarian states, people are collectively responsible for that government. It isn’t fair, but it is reality. It is terribly sad that so many civilians died in Dresden, but the fault lies squarely on Nazi Germany.
Civilian populations are fair game in war. That does not mean they should always be targeted, but it means they can be. Killing friendly or supportive populations would generally be counterproductive and bad strategy, killing hostile or indifferent populations is sometimes necessary. Further, putting our own forces at grave risk to protect enemy civilian populations is a recipe to lose battles and ultimately wars. We simply can not waste endless time and resources worrying about every civilian. And lastly, enemy populations that harbor insurgents, terrorists, etc, should be targeted for collective destruction. The Germans and Japanese knew after WW2 not to even think about an insurgency. They knew we’d take out entire cities till there was nothing left, and that stopped any “insurgency” in its tracks.
We fought WW2 with tactics that killed significant numbers of civilians. We won. The enemies surrendered and knew not to keep fighting. We were good and humane victors. The people in those countries almost immediately allied themselves with us and those relationships are strong even today. That’s how wars are supposed to be fought and concluded. We wouldn’t have had the problems we did in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc, if we’d stuck to the a war fighting philosophy that worked just fine.
Fing moron. Even Bomber Harris and Lemay would gag on your idiot statement. You’re advocating genocide not war. The point is to destroy the enemies forces and ability to fight, not slaughter it’s women and children.