<i>I am pretty sure they can have babies faster than we can bomb them out of existence</i><p>When we defeated Nazi Germany, 70 years ago, we pulled no punches: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_Wa...</a><p>We killed between 22,700 to 25,000 of the enemy&#x27;s population in just two days (February 13th-15th, 1945).<p>In a different raid on Japan, we killed between 88,000 and 100,000 people in a <i>single</i> air raid:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bombing_of_Tokyo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bombing_of_Tokyo</a><p>I hasten to add that the weapons we have at our disposal today are vastly more powerful than any weapon we had 70 years ago.<p>While there are people today that question the effectiveness of these specific raids in bringing the war, the overall point remains: we fought a total war, and the result was a total victory, and a lasting peace with the new nations that sprang from the rubble.<p>Today we don&#x27;t have a tenth of the moral certainty that our grandparents&#x27; generation had, and that is why we (the West) are losing.