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Originally Posted by jcookc6
It seems to me that the last time we were the clear cut winner in a war was WW2. What did we do in that war? We bombed the crap out of the enemy, made parking lots out of thier cities. Yes, a lot of innocent people were killed or hurt, but whoever said war was nice. But, we won the war. After the war, we rebuilt the 2 countries, and they seem to have survived.
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What you may not remember is that even in World Wars I and II we obeyed common conventions with our sworn enemies. Many war weapons both sides devised were felt to be much to brutal, and both sides stopped using them. We had standards then, and we need them now. It might feel morally justified to go into a terrorist camp and start cutting off heads and limbs, but we are (supposedly) the most civilized nation in the world, and we have a more enlightened viewpoint on human suffering than people who have grown up indoctrinated in hatred and guerilla tactics.
It's not like it wouldn't feel great and like the perfect revenge, but it's not what anybody deserves. If that guy deserved it, we wouldn't be as mad, but he didn't, and nobody does.