I seriously doubt that you’ve actually ever had any experience applying “the field manual” or have the slightest clue about when and how to use it. Your using it (or misusing it, I should say) for the convenience of argument. The Hawkins quote by Sportsguy is right on.
Your stance is purely ideological, naive, and belongs in classrooms for discussions. I think that the professional Israeli army knows exactly what it needs to know about its enemy. I doubt that, in the same situation, General Petreus would be applying the “field manual” as you think it should be applied. You use Muslim against Muslim as a basis for your argument (Iraq). Only a fool would apply the same kind of thinking to Muslim against Jew, especially when Palestinians have been force-fed from the cradle the ideology that Israel belongs at the bottom of the sea, and that the only good Jew (or Christian) is a dead Jew (or Christian).
