JUST PHILOSOPHISING - 'THE LIBERATION OF MOSUL! THE 'VICTORY' WHICH ALSO SPEAKS OF DEFEAT. PART 2.

Now, it is not the case that I opposed to the Iraqi and allied forces ridding Mosul of its ISIL occupiers and oppressors of the people. 

Rather, my argument is about the ironic manner in which they have gone about it. The fact that they should have destroyed the city and thousands of its civilian population in the process. 

That the city has been turned into rubble, and will probably never be rebuilt. That it has been made into a place which is hostile to normal human habitation.

I have no hesitation in saying ISIS, Islamic State or Daesh, it a virulent disease which needs to be removed from the  earth. 

It is not a humane way of life. It speaks of death, of unhappiness, of misery, of oppression and inhumanity. 

The doctrine of Islamic State, of Al Queda, Daesh and ISIL, is a doctrine of death. 

Even when their followers appear to be living, they are actually dead. 

The best thing the followers of Islamic State could do for themselves and for the world, would be for them to make haste on their journey to 'paradise', and leave humans to live their lives, on earth. 

Not like the gods or how IS and its fellow travellers think the gods would want us to live our lives, but for us to live our imperfect lives; as happily as we are able to, as humans.

And herein lies the dilemma; how do civilized humans rid the people and centres of population of the infection of IS and Daesh, Al Queda and ISIL. But without destroying the innocent and misguided people whom they have occupied and are forcing to do their will?

Us humans must learn to prevent and/or fight 'necessary wars' smarter. 

A surgeon cannot claim success, if he/she is argues that they have to kill the patient, in order to remove the cancer or other malignancy which is afflicting them. 

As I have said, a city is not a city without its citizens. It is dead without them; it is of no or little value. Unless it happens to be the location of some abundant natural resource, such as oil.

The destruction of an inhabited place, in this case, the City of Mosul, in order to reclaim it from its occupiers, in this case, Daesh/ISIL, is nothing short of a pyrrhic 'victory.' 

And it should be acknowledged as such. The fact that destroying it might have been the lesser of two evils. 

And the only way which would have resulted in less cost in lives and injuries to the 'liberating forces', should also be acknowledged as a tragedy.