(March 20, 2011 at 6:57 am)Ubermensch Wrote: No they did not drop potatoes back then. They tended to drop bombs, hundreds from each plane even. Nukes are a bad idea, sure you've depopulated the land, but now it's irradiated and you can't get at the resources. Chem is the same story, long term contamination is bad. Bio might work, but if your virus mutates, or it spreads beyond your desired area of effect then you have a serious problem. genocide is extremely difficult and simply not worth the time and effort. You're going to put more resources into killing these people than you're going to get when it's over.
Well thought out point. It all comes down to cost then, and while it might be a great answer at some times: it is a dreadfully inefficient in others.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
