Originally Posted by Rochard

This is simple....

If we carpet bomb the living shit out of them, a lot of innocent people are going to get hurt. We used to do this during WWII; We would aim at a factory and destroy an entire city. We would justify it by saying "we needed to destroy the factory" and any of the local population who got killed was justified by saying "The local population supported the factory".

I've said this over and over again.... We've made war "too nice". We rolled through Iraq and the end result is people were pissed off. Instead, we need to make war such hell that instead of being pissed off they say "We will never allow this to happen again". This is what we did with Germany and Japan. In Poland my Grandmother lost her ENTIRE family - mother, father, sister, aunts, uncles.... There was no one left. With Japan the entire population was starving. They were done with war and never wanted to go through that again. This is what we need to do with the Middle East. We need to roll through there and make their lives such a living hell that they will never ever even allow discussion of allowing war to come to them again.