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Saving Your Skin and Everybody Else's
PascalFervor.com ^ | October 31, 2003 | WWII - IPW Veteran

Posted on 10/31/2003 1:18:28 PM PST by Avoiding_Sulla

Saving Your Skin and Everyone Else's
On sensible anger when dealing with terrorists

by WWII - IPW Veteran

October 31, 2003.

When dealing with terrorists in Iraq, we can't play like gentlemen. We need to act as they do. It is not right to subjugate our soldiers to following our arbitrary unilateral adoption of Geneva Convention behavior for dealing with irregulars. That is not required, and we are crazy to have adopted that policy. In the real world, such an attitude is dishonorable. We must deal with these terrorist cowards in the only terms they will respect.

No more of the government giving us these BS numbers of the bad guys they've captured and have to house and feed in better conditions than they have at home. Current policy serves to encourage recruitment of more terrorists.

When we capture any number of these assassins in the act, the government shouldn't be bragging how many prisoners we got. Rather, we will eliminate most in the act, then sadly annouce the death toll. Those few who are fortunate enough to be captured, we question in the manner of the B'athists. After awhile we accidentally let one or two escape.  They will be telling their friends what happened, and the number of eager terrorists will curiously decrease.

A good place to start would be at Guatanamo where accidents would happen every few days. And when they capture someone in an act like Captain Yee's, he should be found amongst the accidents in very short order.

Keep the newspaper people out of your territory. What they don't know can't endanger our soldiers. Leaders who treat their men's lives with the respect we expect might feel a bit freer to protect those lives in a manner not too different from Lt. Col. West, who, as chance would have it, would be up for promotion about now. That's because it is far better that we have dead enemies than dead Americans.

And, by the way, that should be the answer to a mandatory question in the DSATs given to candidates to Foggy Bottom and, come to think of it, to DOD and as well as elevation to the Joint Chiefs, prior to their admission.

Those who want to criticize this are free to be put their theories to the test, personally, on patrol in Tikrit. Each theorist will be given one bullet each to help ensure that our, or rather, their test plan is kept undeterred.

The author, a husband, father, grandfather, and retired exec was a high ranking non-commissioned officer whose company motto during World War II was "better the enemy dead than me."
Our nation succeeded in that war in great part because, miraculously, no officer of rank, whose attitude endangered the life of his boys, survived duty rotation. His brass was similarly impressed with their good luck.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: genevaconvention; interrogation; iraq; ltcolwest; militaryintelligence; morale; opinion; troops
I know there are a great number of Americans who'd feel a whole lot better about our boys' safety if more of today's non-coms were speaking with 2nd World War vets like this one.
1 posted on 10/31/2003 1:18:29 PM PST by Avoiding_Sulla
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To: JohnHuang2; kattracks
Relates to Lt Col West.
2 posted on 10/31/2003 1:25:31 PM PST by Avoiding_Sulla (You can't see where we're going when you don't look where we've been.)
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To: Avoiding_Sulla
Not to mention a muslim pakistani anti jihadi like this.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1012385/posts

We must know that our enemy, has no scruples. It respects nothing and is totally ruthless. We can not overwhelm it by being scrupulous. We will have to rearrange our priorities by accepting that we are at war and all is fair in a war against terror. Our enemy, in this respect, is very clear headed. It is leaving no stone unturned in his mission of frustrating our efforts to win peace in the region.
3 posted on 10/31/2003 2:07:54 PM PST by swarthyguy
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To: Avoiding_Sulla
This policy makes so much sense it cannot possibly be implemented.
4 posted on 10/31/2003 2:47:11 PM PST by OldPossum
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To: OldPossum; Ernest_at_the_Beach; NormsRevenge; headsonpikes; Carry_Okie; ElkGroveDan; ...
This policy makes so much sense it cannot possibly be implemented.
5 posted on 10/31/2003 3:17:29 PM PST by Avoiding_Sulla (You can't see where we're going when you don't look where we've been.)
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To: Avoiding_Sulla
Anecdotally, not a lot of Krauts were taken prisoner in Holland in '45 as Canadian troops liberated that thankful country.
6 posted on 11/01/2003 8:24:11 AM PST by headsonpikes (Spirit of '76 bttt!)
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To: headsonpikes
Yep, I figured this story might pike your interest.

So, Canadian liberators persevered too despite unfortunate SNAFUs? Imagine that. Persevered.
7 posted on 11/01/2003 9:06:25 AM PST by Avoiding_Sulla (You can't see where we're going when you don't look where we've been.)
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