US General Calls 'Carpet Bombing' ISIS Against American Values

ABC News ^ | Feb 1, 2016 | Luis Martinez ·

[Innovative]

Lt. General Sean MacFarland told Pentagon reporters today in a video-conference from Baghdad that the U.S. is bound by the laws of armed conflict and “at the end of the day, you know, it doesn’t only matter whether or not you win, it matters how you win."

“We’re the United States of America and we have a set of guiding principles,” MacFarland added. “And those affect the way we as professional soldiers, airmen, sailors and Marines conduct ourselves on the battlefield. So, indiscriminate bombing, where we don’t care if we’re killing innocents or combatants, is just inconsistent with our values.”

[coon2000]

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

William Tecumseh Sherman

[FreedomPoster]

That nails it right there.

I’m not interested in going to war unless we get rid of guys like that. It’s not worth sending the front line guys in, if that is the attitude.

[LucyT]

US General Calls 'Carpet Bombing' ISIS Against American Values

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[FreedomPoster]

Your graphics hand is strong, as usual.

[laplata]

The man was right!

[Colorado Doug]

Is he Army, national guard or marines

Little league football coach?

[Shadowstrike]

He did. Or, forced them to retire.

[robowombat]

MacFarland is USMA Class of ‘81 and his branch of service is armor. Does anyone know anything about him. He was distinguished for service as a brigade commander in Iraq. Does anyone know anything about him?

[petenmi]

He’s more of a “Participation Trophy” kind of general.

[Smokin' Joe]

Everyone in the Military chain of command appears to be idiots now that Obama is in charge.

The fish rots form the head down.

[hal ogen]

Typical PC-infected Pentagon freak.

[hal ogen]

Typical PC-infected Pentagon freak.

[Smokin' Joe]

What’s the cost break on a bellyful of dumb bombs for a BUFF versus a few JDAMs? There has to be a crossover point where the dumb bombs win out.

[Pining_4_TX]

The only way to win, short of a giant nuke over the Middle East, is to ban Islam in civilized countries, deport Muslims, bring US troops home and put them on our borders, institute a “pet the pig” requirement to enter a western nation or board a plane. Let the Shia and Sunni kill each other in their own dirt bag countries. Keep Muslims in Muslim countries. Problem largely solved.

[longhorn too]

Guy must be interviewing for next position on the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Obama!

[Fledermaus]

Same philosophy that won us the Vietnam War.

[PghBaldy]

Didn’t Cruz say to carpet bomb them, and the media/left took it literally? It is also unAmerican to help the enemy, but that is what the Regime is doing.

[Savage Beast]

The military has been conservative and has tended to be Republican. The Obama Administration has endeavored to change this.

[T-Bone Texan]

Would carpet bombing be good if the enemy was all massed in one spot?

[M Kehoe]

Good morning.

Who knew Curtis Lemay was un-American?

And that sound you hear is Gen. Lemay spinning in his grave.

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