Really happy to see there is independent thinking here still. Great points in your response...and I agree. There is no “winning”. We should simply leave with the message that if it happens again we will come back and bomb them until even the rocks have been turned to dust. Then leave again for them to wallow in the dust, leaving them again the same message. “Happens again, we will bomb you again.”
Go back to retaliation, not pre-emption and not nation building, culture changing, etc. Just the hard fist, which is all those rock heads will ever understand.
Yep. Some people have a real hard time moving their minds along with the changing scenery of situations. They think it makes them wrong to begin with if they change their minds with unfolding circumstances. They would do anything not to be wrong.
But they are not wrong...the circumstances changed and adults are supposed to be able analyze current reality and change stragegy when indicated.
We should simply leave with the message that if it happens again we will come back and bomb them until even the rocks have been turned to dust.
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IMO, there were three leaders who had a proper appreciation of Islam, and dealt with it as it should be. In ascending order of skill, diligence and effect:
Charles Martel
Vlad Tepes
Genghis Khan