Yes, "telling."
"...none of our soldiers were willing to rape and kill women, torture children and adults, murder non-combatants, or kidnap people and use them for human shields, so we had to come up with another plan.."
Humor aside, they are supposed to come up with a disproportionate response, punitive and preventive of things like this. There aren't many responses possible that are worse than what happened.
The stated plan seems right. Eliminate the ability to do anything like that again, whatever it takes.
