I wish Bush had done a Dresden on Fallujah instead of sending our boys door to door like Avon ladies and then investigating one of them for shooting a wounded terrorist when the MSM got it on tape. We should have killed another 2-300,000 Iraq civilians in this war and many more Afghans as well. MacArthur himself hung nearly 1,000 Japanese agitators in a relatively peaceful occupation. In Iraq we let Al Sadr murder Americans left and right and did nothing while pretending one idiot Arab stooge "PM" after another was "in charge". What a joke. We early on focused stupidly on trying to build a "democracy". We forgot that these are savages, and the enemy. Had we gone in with our bloodlust unchecked, nobody today would be whining out an "Iraqi quagmire".
Again, I agree. War is not nice, especially with uncivilized opponents like Nazis, Communist, WWII-era Japanese, and fanatical moslems.
But the west's guilt comes from Nazi Germany (supposedly the epitome of "the west") in WWII, and now we're feeling guilty for bombing the Nazis themselves?
Unless we rid ourselves of this PC worship of the "otherness" of our enemies and our self-hating guilt we will never win another war.
"I wish Bush had done a Dresden on Fallujah instead of sending our boys door to door like Avon ladies and then investigating one of them for shooting a wounded terrorist when the MSM got it on tape. We should have killed another 2-300,000 Iraq civilians in this war and many more Afghans as well. MacArthur himself hung nearly 1,000 Japanese agitators in a relatively peaceful occupation. In Iraq we let Al Sadr murder Americans left and right and did nothing while pretending one idiot Arab stooge "PM" after another was "in charge". What a joke. We early on focused stupidly on trying to build a "democracy". We forgot that these are savages, and the enemy. Had we gone in with our bloodlust unchecked, nobody today would be whining out an "Iraqi quagmire"."
POST OF THE DECADE!!!!!!!!!
Well, for one thing, any "kill 'em all" strategy directed at an Arab population would likely destabilize Saudi Arabia, thereby interrupting our oil supply, sending gas prices soaring, and driving the US economy into a depression.
IMO.