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The problem with "eradicating from the face of the earth", is that the truly guilty are interspersed with the truly innocent. (In WWII the Japanese military were/had abused civilians and prisoners of war. However, in justifying dropping the bomb on Japan, no consideration was given to the majority of the bomb victims as being unaware and not responsible for the atrocities committed by their military.) It is similar in the middle east problem, not all/most of the people likely to be killed because of their "warped logic" are not the offending hamas or hezbollah. In the past, we just killed everybody and "let God sort them out." Can we just ignore this dilemma now?

[QUOTE="dahermit, post: 138777, member: 459"] The problem with "eradicating from the face of the earth", is that the truly guilty are interspersed with the truly innocent. (In WWII the Japanese military were/had abused civilians and prisoners of war. However, in justifying dropping the bomb on Japan, no consideration was given to the majority of the bomb victims as being unaware and not responsible for the atrocities committed by their military.) It is similar in the middle east problem, not all/most of the people likely to be killed because of their "warped logic" are not the offending hamas or hezbollah. In the past, we just killed everybody and "let God sort them out." Can we just ignore this dilemma now? [/QUOTE]

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