“Which is why we should have finished this by now, at any cost.”
If obliteration had been our goal, rest assured we would have done it.
We want these people to be prospective allies one day. We also want to teach them our ways of dealing with riffraff. We can’t do that from 10,000 feet.
They have guns, they need the wisdom to know who to use them on. We are teaching them. And it is working.
your method may have worked, given that all we would then have to do is raise the next generations of their people our way- but this is the course we’ve started, and we are sewing what seeds we may.
Lets hope it finds fertile soil.
If our southern borders had been defended, if Islamic immigration had been curtailed, if we hadn't taken to calling it a religion of peace, and if we had let our troops fight unhindered by international laws that had no bearing on the protection of their enemies, things might have been different.
The American people have grown fatigued with the present policies. We cannot blame them. Many of them understand that the true war for America's security is at home, with the protection of America's own way of life, and its own families. The invasion from the south is more real to them than the threat of terrorism (although both are serious).
With a laser or GPS guided bomb, we sure can. It's our way of making war. They use IEDs we use PGMs.
That said, I can't understand why Mukki al Sadar is still wasting air.