[Joe Hadenuf]

Joe, you clearly were not elected president for a reason. The bomb the shit out of them, and it will all be better mentality, is so vacuous. Talk about firing up the Muslim world to hurl themselves at the US any way they can - you've found the perfect recipe for that.

Using your logic, I guess we should have fought a more politically correct, humane war with Japan and Germany.

[WOSG]

"Using your logic, I guess we should have fought a more politically correct, humane war with Japan and Germany."

Um, we ended up with boots on the ground in both countries at the end of WWII. Nobody on FR is against air power when useful; we all think the 1991 (Iraq), 2001 (Afghanistan) and 2003 (Iraq) air campaigns were awesome, and I'm on your side in appreciating the utility of bombing fallujah 'safe houses' (not safe now, he he he).

But we have yet to win a single war with air power alone.
And the Clinton "fire a missile and forget" policy left us with major negatives consequences.

Afghanistan 2001 was perhaps the ideal example of how future wars could be won: Major air component; use of special forces and intel on the ground; allies, and a 'few good men' to spearhead victory. But in the end, we dont take and hold air, we take and hold GROUND, so we need Boots on the Ground to do it.