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Re:Patriot Act author warns EU against dragnet response to t... by tremon on Friday December 04, 2015 @12:08PM (#10677495)
> If the West had the means to destroy them (without harming millions of innocent civilians)

When the GP speaks of compassion, I think (s)he is referring to the millions of civilians there, not the fighters.

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Re:Patriot Act author warns EU against dragnet response to t... by DougWebb on Friday December 04, 2015 @01:17PM (#10677988)
Yes, that's exactly what I meant. The cold-hearted decision would be to count those civilians as acceptable losses, and just carpet-bomb the whole area.
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