[Warthog]

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Originally Posted by aldtech

Wait him out so that he can be captured alive.

ALD

lol....I'm gonna start calling you people genie lamp committee....rub the magic lamp and *poof*, your wishes are granted.

Things aren't that simple, guy.

Ever raided a house? Urban, close quarters battle? No? Try blasting into a house or a compound, full of guys with automatic weapons. Right. Now, how IN THE HELL, can you guarantee to capture some guy alive? "Drop your weapon!"...lmao. This isn't the LAPD. Granted, no one is going to shoot an unarmed man, but c'mon...you're in an area where everyone is armed. Oh, and one more thing - the building he's in? Yeah, it's surrounded by an unfriendly town. You say, "How do you know it's unfriendly?". And I say: How do you know it's not unfriendly? Everyone is an enemy until proven otherwise. In CQB, you handcuff/flexcuff everyone until you figure out who is good/bad. Including the ones who appear dead (how do you know?). Safety and security for your team is paramount.

Next I'll be hearing, "Well, instead of capturing him, we'll parachute in a team of 'commandos', land on the rooftop and then slit his throught with a knife - that'll teach 'em".

g'yuk!

Unless you have experience in these matters, throwing out whacky, overly simplistic ideas is only good for a laugh.

As far as the actual topic at hand goes, one cannot put down hardfast "rules" to go by for war. Situations . While it's fun to discuss, I suppose, I personally have zero experience as a General or commander of any sort, in charge of operations.........They went by the intel they had and someone made the command decision, deciding the target was valuable enough to take the risk and bomb the area, maybe knowing or maybe not knowing the consequences of the bomb. Prospective civilian casualities may have been at an "acceptable" 2 or 3, who knows. No one knows. I think some believe they bombed the place knowing children would die, etc. etc. Ok, maybe they did - I don't know either. Odds are, they didn't though....You say, "WTF do you think a bomb is going to do to a building?". And I say, "I'm not sure exactly, I don't have extensive explosives and bomb damage assessment training, do you?".

So yeah, it's fun to bash Bush and the War on Terror from a backseat driving point of view, but in reality, one can only wager an opinion, nothing more, from the limited facts presented by the wonderous, always 100% accurate American news media.

Isn't this fun!

Warthog