Judging by your tone, you personally do not really believe in this?
I have already told you about William Tecumseh Sherman, the general, for whom I have little love, but I cannot deny his acute powers of observation and language. During the Franco-Prussian War, he became a columnist and completely shocked the Prussians with sharpness of his stories. He was probably infuriated that the Prussians meticulously and heartily reopened what the armies of the North and the South had opened a decade earlier. So, during this war, Sherman noted: “The war adds to hell—he said—and there is no way to avoid it.” To forget this is dangerous, as you may encounter with those who have not forgotten.
Dreams of a bloodless war must be accompanied by a formulation of the rules of combat, rules which must be carried out “humane” war. But we have seen and see people who do not follow any rules, and will fight based on their own rules. Osama bin Laden and his ilk create bombs, that kill hundreds of innocent people, give them the chance and they will blow up the bomb, killing thousands and millions. They will take hostages and order and perform assassinations. To appeal to them or to encourage them to join the “civilized people” is by definition useless.
In addition, the rules are always changing. Sometimes they are changing under the influence of forces that are not under our control.
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