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Originally Posted by jalfrezi
You don't encourage people to become more moderate by bombing the **** out of them.
To be honest, it did work on the Germans, but only in a particular context (catastrophic defeat and imposition of an Allied military government until enough not-too-badly-tainted Germans could take over), and that kind of bombing was arguably to some extent outlawed by Arts. 51 and 54 of the 1977 Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions. (Israel, however, is not a party to the Protocols. Palestine is, but Hamas does not subscribe to the Palestinian Authority and obviously committed quite a few war crimes on Oct 7 and possibly since.)