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But that's the point, Ron Mars. The Islamists don't care if they hide behind women and children, or in fact use children as suicide bombers. They want 'collateral damage', and never concern themselves with an 'exit strategy' because their exit strategy is centuries old.
A bit presumptuous--eh? To suggest that Muslims don't care if their kids are blown up and killed. . .?
This is just part of the thinking behind what the West is up against.
That thinking is based on cold logic. When armed w/nothing but rifles and RPGs and faced w/an opponent w/planes and tanks, the only rational defense is to level the playing field by forcing your opponent to duke it out on the streets one on one.
And the way to do that is to create a situation where the opponent's use of aerial bombs would result in so many civilian deaths that the opponent would have to hold back from using it. That's a tactic of asymmetric warfare.
Randomly blowing up one's kids for no reason would imply savagery. But being forced to endanger their lives because of practical military necessity is not.
And, of course, as the world has seen in Afghanistan, that thinking works. If Afghan forces had not employed that strategy, the US would've won quickly as their targets would've been conveniently placed