El Jefe:

It’s all good. Brutality for brutality’s sake never serves anyone but those who revel in being brutal.

That said, there are times when the gentler side must be shut off in order to allow for survival.

One thing our current enemy, both foreign and domestic, tend to forget is that the US armed forces are going about things in a “kinder gentler” method these days because they can.

The same ferocity and remorseless intensity that met the Japanese in the Central Pacific Campaign is still available in our hearts and minds for access. The enemy that pushes things far enough that such gets pulled out and put into effect again will not survive long enough to regret it.