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Originally posted by Ronn_Bman:
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Originally posted by Chewbacca:
Also what about *gasp* ground forces.
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Are you suggesting sending in ground troops for the enemy to kill? Would that make it more.. fair?
It's bizarre to me that you think a reasonable answer to civilian deaths caused by war is to send in ground troops earlier when they are sure to take MORE causalities.
Do lives count if they are wearing uniforms?
Can you provide a link that proves (hell, one that even says) sending in **gasp** ground troops would cause less civilian casualties during a military action? I'd be amazed if you could. [img]smile.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]Huh? You have read way to much into my little statement about ground forces. As far as I am concerned, nothing about war will ever make it fair.
I question the honor in killing thousands of soldiers and/or innocents in massive attacks over a long time, like what womd do. Cluster bombs kill in mass over a long time, hence the term weapons of
mass destruction. Dig the logic?
Ground forces may take and make greater casulaties on bothsides, but my remark about them was irony geared towards the Bush administrations hesitance to use U.S. ground troops in key operations in Afganistan. I was suggesting the use of ground forces to do it
Right. Some speculations and opinions agree hasty action and the reliance on the Northern Alliance as ground troops may have resulted in the failure to capture key al queda and Talibon leaders that we are just starting to catch now, over a year and half later. Though it did result in the liberation of Afganistan and the scattering of the terrorists across the region. Regardless, that's the history of where we are at today.
I find your insinuating remark about whether lives count in uniform degrading. I value an American's life no more or no less than I do any other human. If were up to me there would be no war and no casulties on eitherside, but that is not the reality of world right now.
One of the lessons learned from America's last great unpopular conflict, Vietnam, is that a soldier, a U.S. soldier, is following the orders of the President. If the President conducts the country on an erronerous course, it will be revealed in the polls and in the history books, but you do not dis-value a soldier's life or his honor because he is following orders from the President to defend America, even if the threat is more percieved than it is real.
Sticking to the off-topic point, militarily, there are options other than clusterbombs. They all vary in effectiveness and casulty ratio, but they do exist.