Some of you should really sit back and think about what you're saying. Turn an entire country to glass because the few in power are madmen? By that logic, someone should've nuked the US a long time ago for the stuff that our government has done (without popular support of the people) in the past and continues to do now.
I'm no peace-loving hippy or anything. Take the regime out of power, don't kill the innocents. Otherwise that makes us no better than the people responsible for the tragedy on 9/11.
Why do you guys think we build more and more accurate weapons? It's far cheaper to carpet-bomb the [censored] out of a target with thousand-pound iron bombs than it is to send 2 multi-million dollar pieces of ordinance that are more exact. The goal is to 1) hit the target and 2) do it with minimal collateral damage. You know how cheap a thousand-pound iron bomb is?
The whole purpose of war is to remove the ability of your enemy to do what they continue to do despite you telling them not to. (at its most basic level). This can mean killing, disarming, destroying weapons or just demoralizing them.
Am I pissed off that one guy said they were 'Happy' that Columbia blew up? Hell yes. But understand that from their perspective, /we/ are the bad guys. I'm sure we'd be cheering if Iraq had a space program and lost some astronauts when their craft blew up on re-entry too. Try putting the shoe on the other foot. Be angry, but don't be rash.
