“We’ll see what is remembered 50 years from now” is a remarkable thing to say while defending collective punishment, considering we already have a thorough and tragic historical record. The last century gave us genocide, mass civilian killing, collective punishment, and entire populations being blamed for the actions of governments and armed groups. The humanitarian laws written in response explicitly rejected the exact moral logic you are invoking here. You are not offering some hardheaded lesson from history. You are resurrecting an argument the last century already taught us to reject. Instead of predicting how history will remember this, maybe you should read some.