We did not apply either in Operation Allied Force, and this cost time, effort, and potentially additional casualties. We have pinned them down, we have pretty much largely cut them off, and are about to begin to take them out. The overriding justification for military action is quite simply the nature of the enemy we face. We are not dealing with some minor thug whose local brutalities may offend our sensibilities from time to time. There are, in the end, no humanitarian wars.
War is serious and it is deadly.
Casualties, including civilian casualties, are to be expected. Trying to fight a war with one hand tied behind your back is the way to lose it. We always regret the loss of lives, but we should have no doubt that it is the men of evil, not our troops or pilots, who bear the guilt. It's not a conventional thing, where one side's going to win and one side's going to lose. For a fuller version see the Verbatim Special Copyright by Air Force Association.