America should not take more extreme measures to win wars.

actually if you reread the first statement, I was stating that's what someone else thought. soldiers are dieing because its war. not because of civilians. the fact is that if we stop humanizing our enemies. we are no better then those whom we hate. if we stop caring if there are civilians around, we basically become our enemy. why fight back if that is the case? America is currently fighting a war on terrorism. how can we do this, if we take the same actions as the terrorists themselves? meaning if we stop trying to keep the civilian casualties low, how are we any better then they are? also, I didn't post it as clearly as I thought I did. I was not agreeing with you. I posted this "should we become the very enemy we hate? we should stop fighting them and join them in blowing others up." what I should have put to make it more clear was this "if that be the case then we should stop fighting them and join them in blowing others up." because if we are going to do the same actions as them why are we fighting them ? we are fighting them because we disagree with their actions. the world disagrees. lets say that America is invaded. are you really going to tell me that you are ok with enemy soldiers breaking into your house and killing your entire family, because they think, (key word, THINK) that there may be an enemy there? or because they are taking those extreme measures to try to win? your kids are killed by enemy soldiers simply because they were trying to find food. they would have lived if the soldiers had taken some precautions but, they said, we need more extreme measures. killing everything that moves will NOT lead to peace, a quick end to the war, or to less soldiers dieing. what it will do, is it will cause the war to escalate and give our enemies even more reasons to fight us. every civilian you kill would become a symbol of why America is evil. its already being viewed that way, but no where near to the extent it would be. because of the fact that America HAS gone through great lengths to help the civilians, we are not viewed by all yet as evil. if we go all out, our own allies will step in to stop us. we will be left with NO friends or allies in the world. further more like I said, Russia and America have always been against one another. if we started taking these extreme measures, and they asked Russia to come help. Russia WOULD come and help. because that's a big move, and America would have to do one of 2 things. attack or retreat. if we attack then the rest of the world joins with Russia and beats the crap out America. if we retreat we look weak and pathetic. Russia would stand to gain A LOT from us going all out. also yes I'm referring to shell shock, it can be treated, but the fact that the actions caused this, show that they should not be done. you will have a great deal of soldiers whom speak up about it should they be ordered to do what ever. what will you do then if you soldiers turn against you? kill them too? what about American civilians, whom will protest the war, far more then any before? why not switch over to a dictatorship? the idea of soldiers is that they are there to protect the government and civilian populations of their country. however, that has changed over the thousands of years. we now actively recognize that just because they were born somewhere else, it does not make them any less human. civilians did not fly planes into the towers. civilians do not plant bombs on the road. granted some do, but not all. we CANNOT hold the actions of a few accountable to all. it goes ageist the very core of America to do the things that would be considered "extreme measures." (bow, was supposed to be BTW, which means by the way)