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What Does Winning Mean in a Forever War?
Townhall.com ^ | May 22, 2020 | Pat Buchanan

Posted on 05/22/2020 4:25:57 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 05/22/2020 4:25:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

I think Pat is confusing “police action” with war.


2 posted on 05/22/2020 4:28:44 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Whatever


3 posted on 05/22/2020 4:31:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: RoosterRedux
Better than to confuse semantics with reality.


4 posted on 05/22/2020 4:35:12 AM PDT by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
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To: Kaslin

Until mecca and medina are flattened and totally annihilated, the satanic muzzoids will continue their war.


5 posted on 05/22/2020 4:37:06 AM PDT by newfreep
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To: Kaslin

“They refuse to surrender and submit because it is their beliefs, their values, their faith, their traditions, their tribe, their God, their culture, their civilization, their honor that they believe they are fighting for in what is, after all, their land, not ours.”

Kill them all, then.


6 posted on 05/22/2020 4:38:17 AM PDT by Hugh the Scot ("We are domed!" - V V Camp Enari 67-68)
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To: Kaslin

When I retired from the Navy in 1983 you could tell rank and service. Who are these people behind Trump? It’s like the military is ashamed to show their rank. How do enlisted men know who to salute?


7 posted on 05/22/2020 4:39:25 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist (Those who give up some freedom for some liberty deserve neither.)
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To: Kaslin
They are not trying to change us. We are trying to change them. And they wish to remain who they are.

I would quibble with Pat on this point. We seem to have elected some Muslims to Congress. I think these people are definitely trying to change us.

I'd like to see full withdrawal from the Middle East. I'd also like to see Islam outlawed in the US. I'm hoping I get at least one of these things.

8 posted on 05/22/2020 4:44:06 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: newfreep

In WWII, we were willing to destroy the underlying ideology.


9 posted on 05/22/2020 4:46:34 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Kaslin

The U.S. doesn’t win wars anymore because we don’t fight to defeat nations. Instead, in all of these cases after WW2 we simply take one side in a civil war. That’s never been a good idea, and it sure as hell isn’t in America’s best interests to get involved in these dumps.


10 posted on 05/22/2020 4:47:44 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And somewhere in the darkness ... the gambler, he broke even.")
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Wanna bet our relentless WWII military, backed by an angry nation could have wiped out Afghanistan? The problem is that we have too much respect for other cultures now. You can’t destroy a culture while being careful not to offend it.
It’s like trying to wipe out nazi Germany while not hurting anyone innocent, and deciding to leave the nazi party in power with new leaders.


11 posted on 05/22/2020 4:47:44 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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They aren’t police, they are soldiers. It isn’t a police action when you have jet fighters overhead.


12 posted on 05/22/2020 4:50:38 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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Am army of trannies and homos will prevail. Just ask TPTB.


13 posted on 05/22/2020 4:51:31 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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Is that true? Did we "never really" fight to win during our 19-year war in Afghanistan, except when we first ousted the Taliban in 2001?

We never wanted to win, because winning meant killing every mooselimb terrorist, which meant, 99.99% of all mooselimbs, better still 100%.

Very few Americans have the stomach to first admit that islam is a religion of world domination and not of 'peace'.

And second, the only solution, is the final solution.

The concept is so brutal to our view, but it is natural to the mooselimbs.

In the end, one side will kill and dominate the other side, because you can not make a deal with some one that sees the solution as your extinction.

Don't believe it, check out hamas/hezzzzbu-allah and Israel, how's that two state solution coming?

14 posted on 05/22/2020 4:51:55 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE THE MOOSELIMB, TERRORISTS, NOW!)
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Right.

Defeat = Destruction


15 posted on 05/22/2020 4:52:10 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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The military-industrial complex is not pleased with President Trump’s remarks.


16 posted on 05/22/2020 4:52:13 AM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: newfreep

To end this crap, you have to break their hearts. Mecca and Medina would be a good start.


17 posted on 05/22/2020 4:52:18 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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We have failed to reorient the defeated nations to our way of thinking”

Which should never have been our goal. “Reorientation” can require a generation or two of ruthless coercion and brainwashing. If liberty is “our way of thinking”, then we’re doomed from the start.


18 posted on 05/22/2020 4:52:19 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: USS Alaska

“...the only solution, is the final solution.”

We haven’t the balls any more.

Put your mask back on!


19 posted on 05/22/2020 4:53:58 AM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: DesertRhino

“Police action” is a defined term. Not about the police per se but a military action against an insurgence (no declaration of war).


20 posted on 05/22/2020 4:57:21 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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