Posted on 08/25/2017 4:58:26 AM PDT by fugazi
After When British General Sir Charles Napier observed Hindus preparing their traditional religious practice of suttee – the burning of a still-living widow on her deceased husband’s funeral pyre – he told the Indian priests, “You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”
Fast forward two centuries – the United States is engaged in a war with jihadists that follow a religious tradition of terrorism and global conquest.
In an address to the American people this week, President Donald Trump announced a sharp departure from the Bush and Obama administrations’ handling of America’s longest war. The speech signaled what hopefully will mark the beginning of a campaign to restore American military resolve and strength after years of declining prestige. In just 20 minutes, Trump used the words “win” and “victory” more than Barack Obama uttered in eight years, a welcome replacement for politically correct terms like “degrade” and “courageous restraint.”
Undoubtedly, a willingness to use the formerly abandoned term “victory” and stronger military presence with an infusion of mettle is essential to combating our jihadist enemies, and our president signaled that he will not allow the Taliban to retake political control of the vacuums left behind for the Taliban and the Islamic State to fill in Afghanistan and Iraq.
While the president said that he will not announce troop deployments, operation schedules, and withdrawal timetables to our enemies, which he rightly refers to as “counterproductive,” we have since learned that Trump intends to commit more troops to Afghanistan. But whether
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Excellent. I hope President Trump heeds the advice. Sharing on social media.
Guess you didn’t notice Trump’s Afghan speech lacked a certain word that he used to use in public when talking about this problem. One step forward, two steps back.
I think that one of our new customs should be dropping fuel-air explosives on the funerals of jihadists. That'll thin the herd a bit. "Normal" (i.e. non-Jihadist) Moslems shouldn't be attending those, so we won't be attacking Islam, only Jihadism and its followers.
When do we include the terrorist soros in this victory plan?
“It’s gonna be huge”?
“Remember 7/11”?
What did I miss?
Did 0bama ever use those words in reference enemies of these United States?
Victory hasn’t been part of the lexicon for the perfumed princesses in today’s Pentagon. I’m not a huge fan of Trump, but he is getting more things right than he is wrong when it comes to giving the military the room it needs to operate on the ground. I think if the media was actually reporting what was going on overseas, we would see real progress in Iraq and Syria. Hopefully they can turn Afghanistan around also with Trump in charge.
I would love to see our government put the screws to these Marxists and their financiers. Fortunately people aren’t labeled tinfoil-hat conspiracy theorists nowadays when referring to Soros and the Left’s operations to undermine our society.
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