“I want the goat humping jihadi to suffer as much as possible, scream, thrash about, moan, groan, call out to his moon-god”
You don’t want that if said jihadi is still firing his AK47 at your squad or still running at you or your vehicle wearing a bomb vest.
True...and a valid point...and all the more reason to fling the most destructive projectile we can develop at him.
Kinda hard to run and fire with no legs or arms and torso ventilated enough to see paradise through.
We should wage war in the most violent, gruesome and visible way possible.
We cannot kill someone "nicely", which is what the M-16 was purported to do, but we can kill them more "efficiently", and our weapons R & D should be dedicated to that.
One shot, one total and immediate kill...should be the training objective for every snuffy out there, and we should be able to give him the equipment to facilitate that.
Hell, in the fog of war, most of us can't wait around to see if a goat humper is suffering anyway, nor should we care.