<Arab soldiers typically use their own woman and children as shields. If we chose to wipe these people out then there could be no half way measures. No Geneva convention, no mercy for prisoners, no concern about collateral damage, nothing. The obvious danger we face in destroying terrorism is that we ourselves could become terrorists.

All that would be required is precision. We have that, and collateral damage is already expected. Trigger-happy hot-shots are to be expected as well.

Hey, shit happens. And if you think none of the women and children of Carthage felt cold steel sawing into them, you don't know all there is to history. It's never as clean as the book you read it from.

Dan