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Remember you typed this next election Undersea - and then write my name in on your ballot.
Restraint is honorable. However, in combat - its suicide. As one NCO many decades ago said - "It ain't a low intensity conflict if they are shooting at me." and its really too damned bad that in today's politics, its the ones who have never served that are so quick to deploy troops to a hot zone.
War is little different than a single man with a firearm, or in the old Japanese way - a sword. If you pull it out, you better be ready to use it to its utmost. I think the old samurai saying was something like "never sheath your sword while and enemy stands" or some such.
Would an all out war create a storm of civilian casualties. Sure it would. But tying the hands of those who are fighitng does just as bad - the casualties are just your own....
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Good Hunting!
Captain Haplo
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