> Carpet bombing and a drone strike are not in the same "solution space", its like trying to tighten your shoelaces with your hands or with a 10 ton excevator.

Oh, but they are (particularly because I'm not just including drone strikes, but smart bombs).

Wanna destroy a factory, a power-plant, a bunker, a government office?

In WW2, you'd just carpet-bomb the surrounding area and hope some bombs hit the target.

Today, you deliver a payload to a specific part of it.

Compare the bombing of Belgrade in the Balkan wars to any WW2 bombing run.

There are two discussions in place:

- How we make weapons more precise and limit collateral damage - How we reduce the need for weapons in the first place

Both lead to a better situation than the status quo.