Gee, so you oppose the US’ partnership with Vietnam? They are very communist.....and they are also as opposed to the growth of china’s regional influence as we are.
Absolutely not, and I never said this. I said we shouldn’t be fighting to convert peoples to liberal or communist values.
Of course we should ally with illiberal Vietnam.
So, what, exactly, was an “Afghanistan not based on liberal ideas” supposed to look like? How would that have been any different from the Taliban?
They wouldn’t be hosting our enemies like they currently are.
Yep, and committing those war crimes actively hurt their efforts at trying to regain power(and btw, claiming the Taliban was “2x winners” is amusing given they didn’t even exist when the Soviet war in Afghanistan was ongoing).
The Islamist Jihadists won twice.
We are the losers.
In other words, you’d have us emulate German Second World “counter insurgency” strategy. You do realize that mass executions of POWs, besides being a blatant atrocity, renders it rather difficult to gain intelligence about how to the organization, movements, and strategy of the army they belonged to.....right?
Abraham Lincoln ordered the execution of POWs when the Confederates refused to accept black POWs. It was successful.
I would implement a similar strategy for suicide bombers:
For every civilian killed, that many POWs are executed.
In cases like ISIS, which doesn’t take prisoners, I’d double that number.
Not to mention the fact that the Germans’ “strategy” failed miserably.
How’d the strategy of incinerating Japanese cities work out?
Should Truman have been tried for war crimes?
As I said it only matters if you lose…
And then everyone would roll their eyes and ask what made us decide we were “God’s chosen spokespeople”.
Our firepower, which is a gift from the God of Abraham.
God is Great!
The Taliban had loads of enemies......and they’d be hard pressed to see us any as different than them if we rolled in and started committing a boatload of war crimes.
As opposed to being weak losers who wasted thousands of our own lives only to lose to the Taliban anyways.
The first right is the right to life, which we failed to protect.
You seem to be under the impression that committing war crimes somehow helps you win wars, and that’s very much not the case.
You know how WW2 ended right?
How’d we get the North Vietnamese to the peace table?
Oh right, carpet bombing Hanoi for 12 days and nights…
Yep. Shit works.
Safer as in there isn’t some invading army about to roll over the border....and, again, they literally have nukes
So? Do nukes protect their children from the jihadists rockets?
Israel should adopt the Arab methods of ending dissent in Gaza if they were actually serious.
But alas, Israel relies on western liberals so they won’t be able to bombard Gaza with artillery and defeat the jihadists.
Personally I find the Israeli “restraint” a disgusting example of cowardice and a failure that has allowed a threat to metastasize. Now they can celebrate Passover once again hiding from their enemies, but at least this time the bomb shelter is in the holy land!
**Edit** my apologies— Just realized I missed your point!
Unfortunately I do not think nukes would be an effective weapon in Israel’s plight against the jihadists in Gaza. Not enough room.
I would suggest the successful regime actions taken in Homs or Aleppo instead, which used mostly conventional weapons.