Let’s talk about carpet bombing, Dresden, and obscure Syrian city called Raqqa, the de facto capital of the ISIS caliphate. Ted Cruz has taken a lot of scorn from Democrat politicians, the press, and pundits on the left and right for his recommendation that we “carpet bomb” ISIS. Today, carpet bombing is generally considered liberals and elites of all stripes as an atavistic type of warfare from the past, like tossing diseased corpses over battlements (the type of horrible thing Christians did during the Crusades a millennium ago, as President Obama likes to remind) and illegal to boot. But neither proposition is true, nor is Cruz’s proposal necessarily a bad one. There are sound strategic and moral reasons for carpet bombing ISIS, and substantial legal justification for doing so under the laws of war.     First of all, let’s define “carpet bombing.”  It simply means to systematically bomb a target...(Read Full Article)