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I have a hunch that this ancient way of warfare is still the optimal way to destroy a culture and achieve total victory. Not that it's acceptable in any way, bu
by tormeh 12y ago
I have a hunch that this ancient way of warfare is still the optimal way to destroy a culture and achieve total victory. Not that it's acceptable in any way, but imagine if the US had done this in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is heart-wrenching to think about, but I think it would have worked.
- swagasaurus-rex 12y agoThis is pretty much how Isis conducts their warfare.
- tormeh 12y agoOnly against non-muslims, as far as I've gathered. Most of the muslim world (as far as I've gathered) isn't particularly religious, just very socially conservative. So IS isn't employing this tactic to its full advantage here. Nor is it clear how they could, because as long as you go through all the motions it's hard to check whether you really have all that much religious fervour.
- def_illiterate 12y agoAn argument could probably be made that it worked fairly well in subduing East Germany after WWII.
- semi-extrinsic 12y agoNot sure why you were downvoted, this has been well-documented e.g. by Beevor.
- fsloth 12y agoI new that those things happened there but not that this was was so widespread! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Germany http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_G... "estimates of the numbers of German women raped by Soviet soldiers have ranged up to 2 million"
- brainburn 12y agoI suspect all that depleted uranium the US has been dumping in other countries via bullets is not helping the local DNA at all.