I chose the last option (Yes, but I would change ____ (Please elaborate...))...

My "elaboration"...

This is WAR...you don't play sensitivity games and fight by Queensbury rules...

If there's an enemy on the block, you destroy the block...You don't go out of your way because the international community might hem and haw about someone's rose garden getting messed up...

You completely annihilate the enemy and anyone unfortunate enough to be in a 5 mile radius...

Then you turn to the rest of the agitators and say "Who wants to dance"?...

I know that SOUNDS like the typical cowboy routine, but it's long-term effects work much better...

I'd rather kill 30,000 ONCE, than have to go for this tit-for-tat 10K-a-year for 6 (or more) years...And there is no third option, so skip the hippy let's-all-sing-CSN-songs-down-by-the-fire routine...

You end up saving lives in the long run and the enemy knows you have no intention of kowtowing as was done with the 1st WTC bombing, the USS Cole, and the embassy bombing in Africa...

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