(October 23, 2017 at 10:47 am)Court Jester Wrote: The goal is to destroy your enemy. They met that goal.
That wouldn't be permissible in today's day and age, but back then it wouldn't have been all bad or necessarily shunned. The only glory found of a war is winning in the end anyway.
My point was it was just random murder, it was the available way to do maximum damage.
I've been in similar situations, maybe I'm biased. I just know that some solutions aren't pretty.