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Originally Posted by Jim B.
I can't understand why people kill flies with sledghammers
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I don't understand why they would either. Is this a group of flies we are talking about or just your exaggeration? Was that a group of flies, as you put it at Guadalcanal? Peleliu? Midway and the Kamikaze attacks? Philippines? The list can go on about the "flies" in question but I think you can get the drift.
But to answer your question in a word, safety. Less US lives lost when you destroy major parts of their country and get them to surrender.