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I’m pretty sure you know this and are simply venting your frustration, but the U.S. Military does not use tactical nukes unless it were in the most extraordinary circumstances.
Where would the battlefield be...you use tactical nukes on a battlefield...? You don’t use them to indiscrimanently kill anybody and everybody who happen to be in an area, friend, foe, neutral, women, babies, etc. because you’re angry about a ‘copter shootdown and a suicide bombing.
I hope you understand that even without Obama at the helm and even without political correctness in the top brass, the U.S. Military’s own doctrines would not allow for what you want.
The question is, what do we do about Afghanistan? Hussein Obama says we’re pulling out no matter what, and it is obvious the Taliban gain traction with the people there just by that Obama declaration. The Taliban are brutal to anyone who dares side with “the enemy”, and when “the enemy” announces in advance, hey, we’re leaving no matter what, the Taliban have the people there in a vice grip, through fear and violent intimidation.
In addition to that, Afghanistan as a culture is hopeless. They will always be what they’ve always been. No amount of bloodshed or money spent will change that.
Tactical nukes would not stop the Taliban, but it would inflame the world. Oh and by the way, it is under the NATO umbrella that we are in Afghanistan. Can you imagine European + Turkish NATO sanctioning tactical nukes in Afghanistan when even the U.S. Military’s own doctrines would preclude their use there??
As stated, I suppose you are simply venting your feelings.
During WWII we dropped two nukes on industrial cities populated with civilains. The conventional fire bombings of Tokyo and the German city of Dresden killed more people than both bukes did. I am of the same opinion as General Douglas MacArthur, in that if you make the decision to go to war, you should use every and all weapons (total war)at your disposal in order to shorten the war, thereby saving lives and property. He also aexpress the belief that anything short of total war is immoral.
Does this count?
>>You don’t use them to indiscrimanently kill anybody and everybody who happen to be in an area, friend, foe, neutral, women, babies, etc
Of course not. You evacuate the friends first. Then you remind the rest what total war looks like.
Right on the money, and perfectly stated.
So what do we do about the Afghanistan situation? We have got to get the hell out of there, but do we just up and leave? It is starting to look that way, isn't it?
Feelings is what I'd say your post is founded in.
What needs to be faced is that we're at war with a religious ideology ... that war is hell ... that many, many people will die as a result.
They said that about Japanese culture. It seems they had an attitude adjustment.
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I wouldn't be against nuking it, either.
It’s exactly that attitude that cost us 4000 more lives than the 3000 we lost on 9/11 ten years ago today.
“Total war” was the answer then. It is the answer now. Pussy-footing around worrying about enflaming the world isn’t total war. The “rest of the world” expects America to come-a-runnin’ when its @ss is in a sling. So the “rest of the world” can sit back, shut up, and hold on while we administer the justice for which we stand.
What I would NOT be doing is arming and fighting FOR our enemy in Libya while fighting against them elsewhere.
I do not think it's a coincidence that the violence has increased dramatically in Afghanistan and Iraq since we started arming Al Qaeda in Libya.
After Project Gunrunner, I trust nothing this President does.
I am venting my feelings of frustration. Put frankly, we have lost mroe than enough of our finest and bravest and their lives are worth more than even the normal citizenry. Until it’s a grassroots effort, until there is change from within, there will still be resistance. So what if we are seen as driven out? I care more about my troops than these people and while the citizenry didn’t like the Taliban, they are doing precious little to work with us on as much of a basis as possible.