We're maybe using 3 or 4 percent of our nations combat capability. If we wished to we could reduce the military capabilities of both Iran and Syria to dust in about 6 weeks using nothing but conventional means.But in the end, the only military capability we really have is that capability which we will actually use.
It's time to start using a whole lot more of it...a whole lot more...to make it apparant that we have the will to survive, and the will to crush anyone who would threaten that survival.
Those JIhadists and their enclaves must be treated to such will as a message to other, even more dangerous forces that are gathering and marshalling their strength now, with a willingnness to crush them in the same way should the need arise. Our enemies MUST recognize this...otherwise we will invite them to test what they view as anything but the type of terrible resolve we developed in World War II.
I fear, lest we develop and show that same terrible resolve very soon, that we are going to be hit very hard and the cost then will be measured in tens of thousand of American ciovilian lives.
On 9/12/2001, I send out a mass email to many friends and acquaitances that included the following quote:
"We cannot change the hearts of those people, but we can make war so terrible...[and] make them so sick of war that generations would pass away before they would again appeal to it."
W.T. Sherman, on the March to the Sea.
I continue to believe our efforts should always consider those words, and that we should not be attempting Politically Correct warfare.