Can you win a war if you don't aggressively pursue the targets right away? Can you compromise "winning" because of politics? What if war costs even more lives because it is prolonged unduly?
Please read this op ed from today's JPost.com.
It made me think about how the US dropped the bomb on Japan and finally ended the war. My father always says he would not likely have been alive had he been sent overseas due to the war continuing over time. He says the Bomb saved his life. There are a lot of moral questions, and maybe there are no real answers in war. One side wins and one side loses. It seems to me that in some cases, today's diplomacy and politics don't really work. Instead the conflict continues to escalate over the years.
Clearly, killing "civilians" is a really horrible thing. When a country or a region elects to continue to support attacks against another country, are they civilians? Maybe Gaza is not the best example of this, but did the US worry about the Germans? The Japanese "civilians"?
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Every army should take great care not to harm innocent civilians. But none should let the international press and internet dictate their strategy.
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