no argument here.
I've said for decades, to the argument that innocent women and children would die, as a result of much of a retaliation...ehhh every once in a while you got to clean out the rats nest.
Had a now deceased friend who worked military intelligence who said when we kill a terrorist or something similar we need to track back and kill every living relative of said terrorist. Take out the entire family tree. He said that would slow down terrorism pretty well. My solution, as it always is, is a bigger bomb.