Go back earlier and read aboutMy lizard brain agrees, but I'm not sure we have the will to stop something like that once we start it.
Can you stop genocide by committing genocide without becoming the baddies? At what point do we abandon the ideal of potential redemption?
When I read books written by Marines who fought in the Pacific during WWII, I see a justified hatred for the Japanese and their unforgivable inhumanity. Yet now Japan is a strong ally. They completely reformed their culture. Same with Germany.
Of course this was only after we bombed them into the stone age so you may still have a point.
Derna, Tripoli
Battle of Chapultepec
Battle of Belleau Woods