Clausewitz: "Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed: war is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst. The maximum use of force is in no way incompatible with the simultaneous use of the intellect."
[PS I'm just sore `cause I didn't get offered the job . . . ]
Jihadi's don't care if they die. In fact, some welcome the chance to take some of us with them.
Leave them no rock to hide under. No safe haven in which to hide that is "off limits". Undermine their religion and devestate their beliefs.
Coddling the enemy will just get more of us killed.