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I just read your profile.

You have some very interesting positions.

I have always advocated, since the 60's, the total prosecution of warfare by warlike means. To me, shock and awe would have been a mushroom cloud blooming over Baghdad. Yes, Truman understood the 'Patton Principle' - "...make the other poor bustard die for his country". How many of the 58,000 that died (or are missing) during Viet Nam would still be with us if we had prosecuted that 'war' like a true military operation and won it within the first two years. For crying out loud, it didn't take ten years to defeat Hitler and the Japanese!!

Likewise, how long are we going to let the Islamists hold us hostage to our own need to 'be liked by the world'? If it hasn't been noticed by now let me shed some light on a (at least to me) glaring fact; most of the world, Islamic or otherwise, dislike us now anyway! I spent my tour of duty in Munich in the early sixties (before the A-Teams became company sized units in Viet Nam) and the Germans distaste for Americans was only lightly veiled. From what I can gather that dislike has only deepened since then. The French kicked us out of France about the same time (mid-60's) because their dislike for us never lessened from WWII - yeah, I know we defeated Fascism and 'liberated' them but we also exposed just how deeply in bed with the Nazis they really were. Besides, Eisenhower was very open about how he felt about Degaule. And even though our politicians at the time (early 60's again) thought that if we bailed them out of 'French Indochina' they'd relent and embrace our proposed 'nuclear umbrella' approach to the defense of Europe and not go nuclear in their own right. Guess what? Being nice to them didn't help. Just like trying to appease the world now won't help.

Terrorist understand terror. So take it to them. Bounce the rubble, salt the earth and move on.

People still have a problem with history. In 1953, the then-leader of the communists came to our soil and touted that his country would "bury us" and take our country without firing a shot. They started with Hollywood, and Nikita knew that they already had infiltrated our society. Their next step was taking over the universities which trained our "journalists". Before my time, they took over the media and the Democrap party. The only way to win a war is to eliminate the commies here first. Then employ the tactics you mention.