Posted on 03/13/2006 5:49:15 PM PST by SandRat
The difference is that calling a Muslim a coward cuts to the heart of his manhood, and make them insane.
The Minutemen knew they had to abide by such tactics until such a time when they could match The British in the field with equal forces.
Al Queda will never have the numbers to do so because when they'd rather blow themselves up than fight.
The whole asymetrical war concept has a serious flaw, it supposes that suicide bombings and IEDs will be enough to cause us to lose. When we "lose" Al Queda believes that they will be allowed to take over when we leave.
That won't ever happen.
"After the terrorists were defeated in battles in Fallujah and Tal Afar, they saw they could not confront Iraqi or American forces in pitched battles and survive, and so they turned to IEDs, a weapon that allows them to attack from a safe distance without having to face our forces in battle," Bush said during a speech at George Washington University's Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
I can't believe I'm reading this, and I can't believe he managed to keep a straight face while he said this. I guess I missed all that news about terrorists waging war with aircraft carriers, Predator drones, guided missiles, Stealth aircraft, cluster bombs, depleted-uranium munitions, night-vision capability, etc.
Good heavens -- this is the height of either idiocy or hypocrisy.
I'll give it a week before some left-wing putz pronounces a document as false.
Go figure ... Those cowardly, cheating terrorists using car bombs, suicide bombers, IEDs. They should come out in the open and fight like men.
Who could have predicted that they would stoop to this?
/sarcasm
the President can't be serious - we are now reduced to calling out in frustration "come out here and fight like a man!"??? Give the enemy some credit, of course he's going to fight to his strength.
Maybe we should give up our vastly superior firepower and issue veryone dueling pistols - just to make it a fair fight / sarc ...
I disagree - despicable, craven cowards is a far too kind and generous an epithet for those who kidnap civilians torture and murder their prisoners, and otherwise violate the bounds of humanity.
Uhm... Calling a muslim a coward IS a strategic move.
They generally cannot STAND being called cowards (even though they are) so they stand up and fight (and are slaughtered).
From the documents I've seen, US fighting forces have been quite successful in defeating muslim fighters by telling them (via loudspeaker) that they were worthless cowards. Brings them out spraying and praying every time.
The C-in-C is just doing a larger version of the loudspeaker thing.
That's all true, but the *primary* flaw to asymetrical warfare is that it can't defend territory (e.g. Mecca). That's why whatever is left of the Taliban is hiding in Afghan caves right now rather than running the country from Kabul or Kandahar.
When you can't defend ground you wind up hiding and running (e.g. Hussein being caught in a spider hole). You depend upon the locals not ratting you out (lest you wind up like Khalid Shiekh Muhamed in Pakistan).
Chris Plant (WMAL-Washington, D.C.) says the anti IED program was in development for 10 months and was considered 90% effective against IEDs
Topics:
IED neutralizer secret given to enemy.
Reporting is getting soldiers killed.
US press is aiding enemy.
Publishing national security secrets, when does it become treason?
It's called baiting your opponent; goading your enemy into behaving more foolishly.
That's not "frustration," that's genius.
Duh is right.
What am I supposed to do now?
The assholes calling themselves Democrats are now supposed to get my vote and support?
I am thinking more and more about fleeing into the mountains.
Are you in Iraq?
There's more than one way to behave foolishly (grin). If the insurgents suddenly equate their IEDs with being cowards such that IED attacks are reduced, then Bush Wins Again TM
Thanks for the ping!
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Terrorists Can't "Face Our Forces in Battle," So They Use IEDs...As well as EIDs...
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