Group,
We didn't hesitate to do a lot of killing (of innocent people too) in WW II. That's how it got over so quick. In Iraq, we're dorking around trying to be nice. As a result, more of our guys get killed, the war drags on forever, the bad guys get all fired up, and ultimately nothing gets resolved in our favor.
If you want to win this thing, you go into Sadr City and you kick ass....innocent, guilty, on the fence....everything and everyone. Believe me, this kind of message gets out pretty damn fast. Next, you start ordering a surrender (yes surrender) of anyone with weapons or a bad attitude. Again, some innocence get caught up in this, too...sorry...It's chaos and war, not knitting thge club. next, this is followed up by a house to house search and this step also includes killing many people...some who are just unlucky saps in the wrong place at the wrong time. Children will die too. It absolutely sucks and hurts to the core and makes men and women weep and the pain they our causing ..... It's called 'war' for a reason.
Now, if you can't stomache what I just wrote, then you are in favor of leaving that country to the hands of the barbarians, terrorists, and thugs. You see, it'll simply never work until we are feared more than the terrorist. It is just that simple.
Got it?
"Next, you start ordering a surrender (yes surrender) of anyone with weapons or a bad attitude..."
An ultimatum: You tell your enemy they will be ready for inspection of whatever facility by the time that suits your schedule (hopefully, not more than a couple of weeks). Then, you send in a drone and if they ain't ready for inspection, no negotiation, no detaining, no proposals, no brochures from airplanes, no U.N. resolutions, and no blockades. You blow the whole friggin' place, and everyone inside or around it, to smitherines.
We didn't hesitate to do a lot of killing (of innocent people too) in WW II. That's how it got over so quick.
Two reasons for that.
1 Technology, contrary to what some people thik the Norton bombsight was not that accurate.
2 Different knid of war. WWII was a conventional war, this is a guerilla war. You do not fight the former the same way you fight the latter.
If you want to win this thing, you go into Sadr City and you kick ass....innocent, guilty, on the fence....everything and everyone.
I can't think of anything the terrorists would us to do more.