Should We Kill Terrorists or Terrorism?

Whether it's life of a friend or an enemy, I'm against all killings, murders and capital punishments.

In an unexpected development today morning, a dozen fighter aircrafts of Indian Air Force entered into Pakistan territory and dropped 1000 Kg of bombs on some terrorists' sites of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), a terror outfit.

According to the Indian media, this resulted in loss of 200-300 lives, none of them being civilian or from defense forces. All aircrafts returned safely after accomplishing the task in about 21 minutes and PAF couldn't even respond to it.

However, Pakistan has another version to the story. It says, their Air Force responded immediately and compelled IAF air crafts to leave within 3 minutes. Only a payload was dropped in a haste and it resulted in no casualties. Of course, China too has accepted that this air strike took place.

12 days back, 40 Indian army men were martyred in an attack by a suicide bomber. JeM had claimed its responsibility then. Indian media is claiming this air strike as its retaliation. Some are even terming it as Operation Revenge. But foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale states these strikes as preemptive strikes. But the timing and the target doesn't tell it to be a preemptive one.

Whatever the truth is, it has definitely escalated the tension among the arch rival Pakistan & India. This makes me ponder upon following questions:

Can these measures ever bring in peace?
Would killing all terrorists end terrorism?
Can war & violence ever help restore peace?

Apparently, most citizens are very happy by this news. Strong patriotic sentiments are being expressed all over. But when I discussed the matter with few of my friends to take their feedback, each of them told me that this is probably not the right thing to do and it won't solve the core problem. And many people don't believe in wars.

But perhaps these days, it's politically incorrect to express such opinions. So no one talks about it.