[FightThePower!]

I have said on this board before that I don't think we will win this war the way we are fighting it. We have not won a war (and a peace) since WWII. In every war since then we have been too afraid of what our enemy thinks of us to destroy them.

We won WWII because the country were totally defeated. The United States felt that our national survival was at stake, so we were willing to do what ever it took to win. Even if that meant bombing cities and killing thousands of civilians. We must completely defeat the Iraqi people's will to fight in the same way that we defeated the German people's will to fight. The only I can see for us to do that is to be willing to level a city if necessary. We are not willing to do that so I believe we can't win the peace.

[WOSG]

Correction: We must completely defeat the *Jihadist/Baathist/Terrorist's* will to fight in the same way that we defeated the German people's will to fight.

[RinaseaofDs]

If this is war, then there is always, and this is just a fact, one way to win a war:

One side makes the other side not want to fight any more. One side exhausts and destroys systematically and to the roots the other sides ability to make war.

That's how you know you are done with fighting.

The key to winning war against Arabs is to attack their family members. In 1980 a 747 was hijacked by muslim extremists. The story is that the WH authorized the capture of the hijackers family members by CIA SF, amputation of digits, and the transport of those digits to the hijackers. The plane was released without a shot being fired.

I expect that Syria and Iran are about to find out that the price of poker is going to go up.