re: #920 drcordell

I appreciate the new information I have learned today. But that doesn’t change the fact that violence is not a successful strategy for ending a counter-insurgency. And no, examples where the entire city containing the rebels is massacred do not count as examples of a successful counter-insurgency.

au contraire. Violence appears to have been quite successful.

Whether it is preferred is a different question, albeit not the one you asked.