December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor Day

[Ralphie Halves]

Look how bad ISIS is, and how hard they are to defeat. Why do you think we haven't nuked every arab country and turned them to glass? Why do you think our military goes to such great lengths to drop laser guided bombs instead of nukes. Because even in war you can't abandon ethics. We've learned and that is a good thing.

There are some pretty obvious reasons why we do it differently now:

1) We have the technology to, where before we did not have laser-guided bombs and the like. Laser-guided bombs that are clean, targeted, and keep our men virtually out of harms way.

2) It would be a diplomatic disaster to do this now, where before, it was a full-fledged world war. It needed to end however brutal the route to get there was going to be.

3) Our knowledge of the after-effects of nuclear war was not very good back then compared to now.

Either way Kraken, making comparisons to a full-scaled world war, and trying to eradicate random terrorist groups is also like comparing apples to heroin, as you've coined. When you are legitimately at war, where it's do-or-die, you protect your country as best you can no matter what that takes. That's all you do. Nothing else. Everyone else besides us and our allies can get fukked, we do not care what horrible things happen to they and their people, we are in protection-above-all mode. We didn't just now all of a sudden "learn how to be ethical". We handled it rashly back then, I know that, but it won it for us, and ended a terrible war. There is no guarantee, none whatsoever that other methods would have worked out just as well. We will never know. So we need to stop pretending like we do.