“The same thing was accomplished in 2003 without resorting to it.”
You don’t know what the hell you are talking about. Precision bombs don’t terrorize a people. It doesn’t exhaust them. They know that they should stay away from power stations, military things, government buildings, but they will basically be fine.
Then our grunts arrive and a funny thing happens. That population doesn’t FEEL beaten. That’s when the fun begins. The North Vietnamese were hard cases for years. About 2 weeks of mass B-52 raids on Hanoi and they couldn’t wait to get back to the table. And notice that mass insurgency that didn’t happen in Munich or Cologne?
You have no idea what you are talking about. Ask any desert storm vet his opinion on B-52s carpet bombing.