If memory serves, during the Crusades the Knights thought it cowardly to be ambushed by crossbowmen. Man to man was their way. But as someone astutely stated here, even a gun at 20 or so feet is not exactly man to man.
So I say rather than the more common statement to "win at all costs", I say win with the least cost to our troops.
And to Hades with those of our enemies. How does the saying go?
If they stand behind you, defend them. If they stand beside you, respect them. If they stand against you, defeat them.
Their ways are not ours and we should NEVER allow them to be. They treat women like cattle and children like sex toys. They murder their own that go against their Schmoely book, the Queeron, be they homosexual or heterosexual, man or woman, child or adult, muslime, Jew or Christian and even worse for Atheists.
The Nazarene said, "Choose" while their profit says "Submit!" Even if you care not for the wisdom of the Christ I adjure any that are civilized to choose to never submit to the evil that is islime.
Those that stand against President Trump stand against not only against America but Civilization itself. You feel the oppressors, once you have grovelled before them and offered up your butthole will spare you and your kind, your friends, your families? You don't deserve our protection.