[tonycavanagh]

re :I'm am not, and have never been, in favor of nation building in the ME. Get in, destroy their military, universities, all manufacturing capability, oil production, and all other targets of opportunity. Then get out.

That tactic will not work, since they will regroup and you will have to go in again and again and again.

And each time they will learn from past mistakes and adapt and evolve.

Rather like in Vietnam, when American forces had to go in to the same territory over and over again to destroy the NVA and VC infrastructure.

If you destroy a infrastructure you have to replace it with another or a unfriendly one will grow back in its place.

After all if what you say is true for Iran it should be true for Iraq, since we have removed there WMD and WMC programme.

[Fishrrman]

tonycavanagh wrote (in response to an earlier post):
re :I'm am not, and have never been, in favor of nation building in the ME. Get in, destroy their military, universities, all manufacturing capability, oil production, and all other targets of opportunity. Then get out.

That tactic will not work, since they will regroup and you will have to go in again and again and again.

Well, a little bombing works for a short-term solution. But - as you have correctly stated - short-term solutions will be useless in the Mideast, if The West is _really_ of the mind to win in the War with Islam.

I see only ONE possible, workable, permanent solution to this struggle:

The Islamic world must be DE-Islamicized.

There is no other way.

So long as Islam lives and breathes, The West is in mortal danger.

If one believes that to be true (I do), what other possible solutions CAN there be?

- John