<we might sharply reduce our shipments of fuel and food into the city.>
That's a practical plan, which has worked in the past.
In the Boer War, the Brits couldn't defeat the guerrillas. So, they made war on the civilians. A successful example of collective punishment. They rounded up the entire civilian population, every woman, child, and elder they could find. Then they put them in concentration camps, with inadequate food and housing, dirty water, minimal sanitation, grossly inadequate medical care. The predictable result, was a huge death rate, from privation and epidemic disease. The Boer guerrillas surrendered, when they realized the Brits were willing to continue this policy, until all their wives and children were dead.
And there is no need to worry about the fact that collective punishment is outlawed by several treaties the U.S. has signed. Or that the action you propose, meets the definition of War Crime. You assume we will win our dirty war, and therefore can act with impunity. |
