Quote:
Originally Posted by The_Jazz
I couldn't disagree more. The idea in war is to win. Period.
|
What about the ideas outside of war? Wars usually end eventually. There are many more paragraphs to be written after your bold "period" there.
Quote:
Originally Posted by The_Jazz
I know of no country that would prefer defeat to victory without the preservation of humanity.
|
I'm sure they're out there. I know of no country, thankfully, that would prefer a global scorched-earth victory to a conditional surrender. I think you're speaking from the point-of-view of the military apparatus. I would be more inclined to agree with you if I saw it purely from that perspective, but I don't. I see it from the perspective of the nation and its society. I would like to think my own nation would sooner prolong suffering and struggle in a conventional war than opt for the wholesale slaughter of "enemy" civilians on a grand scale.
An atrocity is an atrocity, and this one is a dark shadow over U.S. history. And now there is this industrial military complex that is capable of much more than that.
If winning were the only object, where are the American nukes in Iraq?