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There is a problem with this whole thing about being "civilized" in my opinion. War is NOT civilized. No war EVER is civilized. It wasn't civilized when Europeans were fighting hand-to-hand for land grabs. It wasn't civilized when African tribes were attacking each other for the purpose of capturing slaves to sell to the Arabs and Europeans. It wasn't civilized when men marched across open fields into a hail of bullets and artillary. It wasn't civilized when nations firebombed whole cities and used nuclear weapons on civilian populations. And it won't be civilized until we are using our robots to destroy another side's robots, which is probably a way's off.
Not to make any point about what we should or should not be doing here, but all this talk involving war and being "civilized" isn't worth anything in my mind.
My personal opinion is that if they are killing our troops in this manner, they should have the same done to them when captured. Also I should repeat my earlier question about how many have died at Guantanimo Bay?
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