[jonascord]

that is not our troops way

It used to be. I offer as evidence the 95% to 99% death rate for Japanese defenders during the WW2. After the Goettge Patrol incident on Guadelcanal, the chances of a Japanese making it to POW status dwindled dramatically.

Maybe this will be the "unofficial" trigger that will change this from a PC "war" to a WAR, one that means Winners and the dead, and no agonizing, no pity, no remorse about the latter. The US military is quite able to play hardball.

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One can hope.

[New Girl]

"The US military is quite able to play hardball."

They are able to play but they will not for fear of offending the PC community. They would rather let this war drag out, have more of our soldiers killed or maimed, then fight it the right way. Nothing will change this.

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Indeed, I have a modest proposal for a political experiment:

We're a little busy 'nation building' in Iraq right now. Let's do a side-by-side comparison in Iran.

In one country, we try to build a democracy.

The other we bomb up to the stone age, and let them do their own damm 'nation building', if they can.

If not, Oh well...