1/2: I've said it before and will again because it bears repetition...
There is absolutely no such thing as a clean war, one where nobody but the baddies get hurt or killed, and that is exponentially more true when it's a war against terrorists, against barbarians, against any form of hapless causehead or True Believer in the Cause.
The whole point of terrorism is in the term: TERROR. The point of terrorism is to get the government to give up/in in order for the terrorists to stop murdering.
2/2: For my money, if there's one thing that's could well lead to some kind of New Dark Age or at least make this one substantially darker is for civilization -- as in Actual Civilization -- to give up defending itself against terrorism and violent outright barbarity because someone's feelings get hurt or because "stopping down to their level makes us no better than them". Fuck that noise.
The latter half of the 20th century learned nothing from the first half, apparently.
