Originally Posted by Robbie

I remember when Pres. Reagan ordered air strikes on Libya in 1986 in retaliation for numerous terrorist attacks that originated in Libya.

Among the targets? Quadaffi's personal homes in a gambit to assassinate him.

That was April 14, 1986 for all the people who don't remember.

Here was the result:
"Qaddafi?s 15-month-old adopted daughter was killed in the attack on his residence, and two of his young sons were injured."

It was shocking at the time. I couldn't believe that our govt. would kill an innocent 15 month old toddler.

Then I thought more about Hiroshima and Nagasaki in WW2 and realized that our military targeted two major cities in those atomic bomb drops. Not military bases...but cities. Full of men, women, children, and the elderly.

Killed hundreds of thousands of people instantly and millions more from cancer and radiation disease over the next decades. And yes, that included the families of the Japanese military.
The justification? It would help end the war quicker and save American lives.

Isn't that kind of what Trump was saying about the terrorists families? That if we threaten to kill their families (just like Pres. Reagan in 1986 and Pres. Truman did in WW2) that they will think twice about killing Americans?

I'm not saying it's the right thing to do.
I am saying that the media and the other candidates are being hypocritical and ignoring history.

I think Trump was bluffing with that the whole time as part of his approach to things. But I don't agree with actually DOING it. Just like I don't agree with what Truman did with dropping atomic bombs on Japanese cities.

If any other country were to do that...the U.S. would be screaming "War Crimes" at the U.N.
Our federal govt. is the epitome of hypocrisy in my eyes.