I agree wholeheartedly, rrufff. Have you ever read T.H.White's Sword in the Stone? I read it as a child in a Catholic Prep. school. One thing I remember that we spent time on was the concept of total war. King Arthur was sickened by war and he was particularly sickened by the fact that the people who suffered most in a war was the peasant class, the common folks, while the nobility loved war, because they rode in on armored stallions and were encased in impregnable armor themselves. So most nobility survived all the skirmishes they instigated, while cutting down the serfs, who were unprotected by armor.
King Arthur changed all that by engaging in total war. Many thought he was brutal by pulling out all the stops, but he pacified the country and then diverted man's lust for competition into gamesmanship through tilting competitions and quests, etc. It was his way of addressing the Might vs. Right question: does might make right or does right make might?
Anyway, it was a good story, but the theory, I think, holds true. If we have to go to war, especially against an implacable enemy, then we'd better fight it hard and fight to win and political correctness be damned. So I'm all for leveling mosques and any other so-called holy buildings, if terrorists are taking refuge and firing on our soldiers from them. |
