and treat any attacks in reaction to such events as utterly unprovoked and hence to be very harshly punished…- And that's the key to his whole point: Punishment. Smite the wicked. Make them pay with their children's blood.“Kill them all - God will know His own.”“We must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig. Cow after cow. Village after village. Army after army…”
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and treat any attacks in reaction to such events as utterly unprovoked and hence to be very harshly punished…
- And that's the key to his whole point: Punishment. Smite the wicked. Make them pay with their children's blood.
“Kill them all - God will know His own.”
“We must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig. Cow after cow. Village after village. Army after army…”
It was necessary to destroy the country, in order to save it.
What the hell, it's worked since the Bronze Age. Sort of. Of course, Assurbanipal and Tiglath-Pileser didn't have nuclear weapons…