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Are you trying to justify killing babies and wiping entire families, because their leaders attacked? WTF

That's more than barbaric

No, he’s justifying killing the monsters who go out to murder and wipe out families, then put other families deliberately in the line of fire to try and get the opportunity to do it over again

So you just kill the entire neighborhood? Ok And after you killed thousands of kids and families because you're targeting the terrorists, what's the status right now? Did you wipe the terrorists? What is the "good" outcome?

This results of this barbaric strategy don't look good from any angle. Is there a problem with the intelligence? It's been a month I think

You do your best to kill as few people outside the terrorists as possible, accepting that because any military is not all-powerful and the terrorists are incentivized to and do put civilians in the line of fire, you will not get it 100% right and civilians will be killed unintentionally.

It's the least bad of a set of terrible options.

Not even that, he's just presenting the other side of the scenario, in a probably honest attempt to balance the perspective so one-sidedly presented by the flamewar, pre-digested parent comment.

and what is your solution? stand back and wait for it to happen again?

No, punish the criminals only?

a thought exercise for you – two blood thirsty maniacs sit in a house, in which, possibly, several people reside. You have warned the people in this house, yesterday, that maybe the terrorists will come to use their house as a base and suggested a way out. In the hands of the maniacs is also a machine gun and they are shooting at a school full of other kids and successfully kill them one by one. Your only weapon is an RPG – should you blow up the terrorists?

> a thought exercise for you – two blood thirsty maniacs sit in a house....

We can already see the outcome on the ground, the response have led to more casualties than the maniacs ever did, and still failed at eradicating them.

Now the question, what would you do in this situation? When you find you've killed and caused more damage than the criminals. And worse, the criminals are still there.

If I was a police chief in that position, and a decent human being, I'd resign for failing to do my job and hand myself for prosecution for killing all these families for nothing.

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