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No worse than the anti-bombing straw man that has the choice as bombing civilians or not bombing at all.
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I feel like you may not be exactly clear on how bombing works. The planes we launched today were carrying Paveway bombs - laser guided, which should increase accuracy, except that you need a laser designator on the ground to make use of that, which is exactly what we don't have.
Right now we may be able to find targets with low densities of civilians, but if there is any end-game in mind, then bombing Raqqa is presumably part of that. ISIS have been building tunnels under other cities against exactly this eventuality, so I suspect the civilian to insurgent hit rate is going to skew pretty radically at that point.
General_Strike
I feel like like it is mostly the pro-airstrikes argument that frames it as airstrikes or inaction. Most of the anti-airstrikes argument is not to do nothing instead. Is that a straw man?