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To: johnmilken

I think the bastards we should be burning figuratively and literally are the "insurgents" (AKA "terrorists") in Iraq who oppose liberation. Forget the PC nonsense and go after them-tell the UN to take a hike. Ours is a military family, and if there is one thing we hate, it is seeing diplomats and hand wringing liberals keeping our military from doing their job-namely fighting to win now so they can come home.


279 posted on 12/21/2004 2:41:26 PM PST by Texan5 (You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...)
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To: Texan5

This is true, but who are the insurgents / terrorists? How can they be found? They have no uniforms, at any time they can lay down their arms and blend into the crowd. Executing every male of fighting age is not a viable policy. The way to win a fighting war like this one is to kill all the men, rape all the women and plough salt into the fields...but that is [thank God!] not an option these days. We need to win hearts and minds plus kill the enemy. Looking back at other occupations / insurgencies [Northern Ireland, Algeria, Afghanistan (for the Russians), Chechnya] does not really give a lot of hope for the military option. And the elections - if free and fair - will hand more power to Iran...

I'm looking for hope in this situation, but I went through a business failure a few years ago and know that hope means nothing if all the indicators point downward and your actions are wholly misguided. If we had gone in right after Mision Accomplished and 'bombed' the population with aid we may have won over enough folk to make this thing inevitable. As it is, from the point of view of the Iraqis, we have screwed-up and placed our troops in the insane position of carrying flowers in one hand and guns in the other with absolutely no idea where to point either.

The Iraqis control the situation, the US is just riding the tiger. See things through their eyes for a moment and realize that we're in one hell of a pickle.


292 posted on 12/22/2004 8:03:30 AM PST by johnmilken ([support the troops])
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