give me an alternative solution then; you go out of the way to not kill any civilians despite knowing > doing so endangers the very troops that have risked their lives > enemy hides behind their civilian population  > sparing the young boys who will end up being enemy combatants in a few years > the rest of the population is running an economy that keeps the enemy engine running > you're prolonging a conflict and putting your own people at risk so how does one finish a conflict like this? an enemy isn't going to surrender by you being nice; enemies surrender when they see no other option or that the alternative is too costly.
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