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Why is the Army hesitating in killing the terrorists?

posted 8 years ago by Florist9
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I mean, killing civilians is bad but letting the terrorists get away is unacceptable. Lots of terrorists noticed this weakness and they are setting their bases near schools, kindergartens, hospitals, etc. There's no way the Army will win the war on terror if they hesitate to strike because a little girl happens to be nearby.

During WW2 for example the Germans crushed all resistance from the partisans by using massive force. If in a village there were members of the resistance, the whole village was bombed, and a platoon of soldiers was sent that would then kill the survivors. For every killed German officer a whole village was destroyed. Thousands of villages were wiped this way in Poland and Russia.
During the second Chechen war, the Russian army also used massive force. If a Chechen sniper was in an apartment building, the Russians would send a missile that would blow up the whole building with all the people in it. One time several terrorists were spotted in a market and a bomb was dropped there, killing also about 100 other people. The Russians also bombed schools, mosques, hospitals, wherever the terrorists were observed,a massive attack was initiated without any concern for civilians. And this is how Russia won the Chechen war!

[–] Ghosthunter123424 8 years ago

Part of the problem explored in the film is purely legal, the other part is the unwillingness of civilian authority to knowingly kill civilians and the difficulty for the military agents to overcome it. The film hints that desensitization will make it easier for them to do it, but is it worth losing empathy.

Some things have changed since WW2, various international treaties and the like. The Russians tend to do things differently and the western world tends to find it deplorable.

[–] Crystal_Dive 8 years ago

like how the American coalition keep on bombing weddings in Syria and Iraq? not enough Americans and Brits care enough to even build a decent size rally.

not to mention the indiscriminate bombing of civilians by the Saudis using American hardware in Yemen.

[–] featheredsun 8 years ago

If only we could be more like the Third Reich or Soviet Russia...

*sigh*

[–] hardseasailor 8 years ago

wasn't it the usa that dropped two atom bombs on japan,i think when it comes to war the longer it goes on the more inhumane it becomes whatever it takes to end it will be done and there is no no country that wont reach that point.

[–] m01000010101 8 years ago

The Imperial Japanese Military murdered roughly 10 million civilians from 1937 to 1945, the bulk of them being Chinese, Korean, Malaysian, Indonesian, and Filipino. They started off massacring an estimated 200-300k Chinese civilians with the Rape of Nanking in 1937.

The Allied Forces murdered around 1 million Japanese civilians. Mostly from the firebombing campaigns and the two nukes.

[–] Terrapin2212 8 years ago

Israel will also just take out the terrorists. If Hamas uses human shields, that's on them.

[–] raf-33 8 years ago

The one thing you are forgetting is that the Germans wiping out towns was never considered legal warfare, they were all considered war crimes and part of the genocide of Poles, Russians, dissidents and anyone they disproved of. Similarly the Chechen War would be hard-pressed to call a war because as you stated few Geneva conventions were followed.

You basically just stated how we should be more like the Nazis or those notoriously tolerant Russians, neither of which are particularly good examples for winning people over.

I don't know which country you are from but if you saw children and other non-combatants being slaughtered wholesale you wouldn't think "Wow, my enemy is really showing me the error of my ways!"

No, instead you would pick up a gun and side with the person next to you regardless of his or her morals. That's how radicalisation works.

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