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That's all because we "played fair". Bleeding hearts unite! Yeah we killed a lot of Taliban before they headed for the hills and into other countries. Then we chickened out. In fact there were far too many American lives lost to those savages all because we chose to play fair.
Would these be the same spokesmen than claimed that an Israeli rocket struck the hospital and killed hundreds?
It's interesting that you think there will ever be peace in the middle east. There won't be as long as Palestinians live in Gaza. They are committed to Israel's destruction. Even if Israel gets rid of Hamas from Palestine that won't be the end of it. There isn't any evidence that there can be peace there. The Arabs can't seem to help themselves.
I don't think that would have been necessary if we didn't let them go in the first place.
Some took off before we had troops on the ground, Gitmo is pretty big bit not large enough to hold tens of thousands of “detainees”. What else could we have done with them?
Are you advocating for nation-states to commit war crimes?
As I stated earlier Hamas being "embedded" in the general community is an inevitable consequence of such a densely populated territory as quoted from a newspaper article.
Writing "may be" means it wasn't an assertion: basic English
These examples aren't comparable. At least you've rowed back on IS and AQ who are still functioning.
This is common knowledge if you follow the news
Isn't this an example of you speculating. Maybe it's better for you to abandon your nit picking.
And the mirage of destroying Hamas won't happen. In the end (as in N Ireland) a political solution is needed not more war, violence and death.
The video was linked by Ana the 1st. You should take this up with Ana the 1st.
This could have been said about Europe until 1945, and there have been smaller wars in Europe since then. The Bible teaches us that it is humans, not just Arabs who "can't seem to help themselves." The death toll in the American Civil War was far greater than in Israel/Palestine. Your comment here was racist.
Shining path is still active.
The Lord's Resistance Army never had anywhere close to 60,000 members. At it's height it may have had 5,000 to 6,000. There are estimated to be between 200 and 1,000 LRA members today. They continue to carry out attacks on civilians and kidnap children.
Neither of the examples you gave prove that terrorist groups can be defeated militarily. In both examples, each terrorist group is still active and continues to carry out terrorist activities today, although in a much diminished capacity than in the past. It has been intellegence operations, law enforcement and the courts that have been most effective in reducing the treats posed by these two groups.
Abiding by recognized norms of warfare is one way we tell ourselves we're the good guys.
Being 'flexible' with the recognized norms of warfare is one way we know a group is not the good guys.
