[PvK]

I don't think bombing civilian populations is an effective strategy overall, because it makes all sorts of people despise the perpetrators, eventually, and for good reason. One may not only want to overcome one's present enemy, but also to not end up being hated as an indescriminate killer of many innocents, which can lead to endless problems eventually. Moreover, hopefully one wants to actually avoid becoming a mass-murdering monster, as a goal in itself.

Defeating someone you are fighting because they are terrible, by means of becoming just as terrible, is in perhaps the most important way, a terrible defeat.

Kind of like protecting our freedom by first throwing it away (see Patriot Act).

PvK

[ March 22, 2004, 18:31: Message edited by: PvK ]