Why We Shouldn't Fight a War for Retribution

There is nothing with fighting a war for retribution or revenge. We should have levelled that place, and a lot of people would have died,. But what's thi solution to turn the country bak over to the talaban after a 20 year experiment in blood and treasure where innocents die? Anyway, there's no easy answers here, folks. Make your wars short. Make them big. Sometimes retribution is the answer. Sometimes overwhelming pain on our enemies is the answer. This is their terms. This is all they understand. They don't understand that. They just sense it is weakness. I agree with anton's assessment, citing machiavelli. That's not what this