anthony
Founder
I don't think there is any winner... everyone loses, in reality. Terrorists are hunted and killed... Civilians are used by terrorists to instil fear agendas. Nobody wins.Who is winning the war on terror
The stupid thing, IMO, is that terrorists would actually probably have a lot of civilian support if they targeted the real offenders, being military. It is a militaristic war where, primarily America, is just stupid and lazy in dropping bombs, and use acceptable risk and such words, to justify killing their civilians (the other side, jihad, terrorists, the enemy, whatever you want to call them).
I would be pissed off if people lazily dropped bombs that killed my family.
What do you expect them to do in return? Return in kind what is happening to them... start killing civilians.
Both sides need to start fighting cleaner, IMHO. Don't get me wrong -- these whack jobs use civilians to protect themselves. They surround themselves with them, kids, trying to deter a bomb being used against them. Obviously not OK and in such cases, they have condemned those civilians to death. Or have they?
Bombs are area weapons... warfare needs to get back to basics.
Fight cleaner... have some morals. War has always been dirty, but to use civilians by either side is just ludicrous. Everyone keeps losing, there can be no winner IMHO.
All of these leaders need to get together and make some rules (all sides) -- no surrounding yourself with civilians, no targeting civilians. You want to kill each other, go for it... just do it in a desert or such, man on man, good old fashioned warfare where some rules and dignity use to exist.