re: #397 avanti

The issue was killing a few dozen civilians to get a few insurgents was not a winning plan. The Afghan government getting a lot of heat over civilian causalities like
these..

By that reasoning we wouldn’t have gotten the Al Qaeda leader Al-Zawahiri or whatever the hell his name was in Iraq. I recall that a number of people were killed when we sent bombs to his house as well.
In wartime you can have only one #1 prioirty - killing the enemy. Any more than that and you’re inviting all kinds of unpredictable factors into the equation.