Taliban's gonna win Ya'll...

[Spider]

Sounds like war. An atrocity would have been simply firebombing it from the air, and dropping anti-personnel munitions on all the fleeing refugees. This way, you remove the enemy, and risk no lives of your own forces. Probably cheaper, too.

The very act of sending in ground forces rather than simply wiping out the city is a humanitarian...to say nothing of actually giving warning and letting everyone who wanted to leave! And then offering at least some reparations afterwards for property damage. (which, in a combat zone, is obviously going to be extreme).

It was an entrenched enemy. Fortified. Not sure how you'd go about killing them. But killing them was the goal. Ya know. Because war is focused violence.

Maybe we could have asked nicely?

[battleax86]

[Spider]

[The Dharma Bum]

It's not cherry picking when you can take example after example and they all point to the same conclusion.

We are the major force of repression in the world. There is nothing humanitarian in the slightest about that. At most I would categorize our pretext for doing many of these things as some sort of vaguely humanitarian goal but that is nothing more than a pretext.

Imperial control is brutal. That is all there is to that. We don't need to be engaged in it. It contradicts our national purpose and negates our reason for being.

[The Dharma Bum]

BTW carpet bombing is not generally considered 4-G warfare. lol I don't know where you got that idea.

[Spider]

[Spider]

[battleax86]

[The Dharma Bum]

Whether you realize yet it or not anarchism, the doctrine of human freedom, is the most relevant social order in history.

And I don't really care how you came to the conclusion as long as you admit that the US is the world's most repressive force.

[The Dharma Bum]