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Originally Posted by Mojo_PeiPei
Then whats the issue of even the playing fields? Granted I'm no for going door to door and blowing people away. But I just honestly can't fathom that in terms of troop safety and in a sincere effort to keep the war in our favor, if not win, how the Anti-war types say we should be held to a higher standard.
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As I already pointed out, evening the playing fields would require us commiting approx. 20,000 rag-tag troops (internationally, not just in Iraq/Afghanistan), not using fighter jets, bombs, tanks, etc.
Even with our non-torture and no targetting civilian policies, I do not see us as holding a higher standard - we're simply more capable of targetting more precisely those that we deem problematic. Take the use of such capability away and, naturally, we'd be even worse than those we claim are Evil - think intentionally dropping bombs on hospitals/schools/etc in order to induce the same method of terror that is being used against us. But even with our intentions, we have still killed far more civilians - by orders of magnitude - it is undeniable that this promotes terror in the civilians. The difference is, those civilians have no control over their gov't or the miniscule number of terrorists that fight us - so we scare them, but it cannot accomplish anything.
In essence - I do not see any other option for the enemy of the U.S. in this case. But since I am ostensibly on the side of the U.S., I see numerous problems with our tactics - starting with this concept that we are the Good and they are the Evil.