The French officer: “We have massively destroyed the infrastructure and given the population a disgusting image of what may be a Western-style liberation leaving behind the seeds of an imminent resurgence of a new adversary.”
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One day, the story will be told of how much of the harrowing destruction & civilian killing in Iraq & Syria was driven by a sense of disregard to those areas. It was, in a sense, punitive.https://reut.rs/2tlOZye
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Absolutely. The rules of engagement are kept secret but it is obvious that the policies on targeting, precautionary measures, and civilian collateral damage would have been radically different if operations were against insurgents in, say, Europe.
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Punitive? Or malign neglect and immoral indifference? Effects might be the same, but there's a difference.
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After many many years reading news articles found someone who has some morality and offcourse balls to dare and tell the truth. This entire war both in Iraq and Syria is not won
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I’m sorry, “disregard” is likely a wrong adjective. Let’s try using terms or words such as, “missionary zeal”, “fascism”, “racism”, “abject criminality”. It wasn’t disregard for others, it was the thirst for their blood. It was a deliberate, well thought out strategy.
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Civilian punishment is used to force retreat, but if the fighters are foreign they do not have investment in the local community so it may not work so well. And it will always create new enemies, indeed it is likely what created IS.
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