Posted on 11/27/2020 10:42:54 AM PST by PATed
Trump didn’t come all this way to fold.
Frankly, I think he’s at the point where he’d give up his fortune to follow through with his intentions.
[I don’t disagree, but I would like to think we are “better” than we used to be by trying to use precision munitions to minimize civilian casualties. In hindsight, most of the damage we did in Iraq was needless. They were surrendering immediately because the carnage done by air power in the first war in the gulf was fresh in their minds.]
Note that there are genuine surrenders, and then there are surrenders driven by a wish to continue fighting under rules favorable to the rebels. In antiquity, the remedy for guerrilla war was the extermination of the rebels along with their kin and friends. Lacking that remedy, GI’s bled for a decade. The Greeks applied it generously, and ruled Persia for as long as these United States have been around.
Plenty of justification to nuke them bright and early tomorrow morning.
As Machiavelli said, it is best for the Prince to be both loved and feared - but if you have to choose, it is better to be feared, because love is fickle.
Yeah, no reply. Thought so, coward.
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