I understand your logic. I still don’t think we can do that sort of things in this day and age.
There are many Islamic people who go to work each day, or at least busy themselves with providing for their family and contributing to the immediate society that they live in. I don’t buy into the theory that all Islamic people are evil. There are parts of Islam I detest. I’m not writing the rules for how those folks live their lives. I view it as more of a Star Trek leave their civilization alone as long as they leave us alone situation. And most of them leave us alone. It’s the pricks that ruin it for all of us.
Many Iraqis want to live in peace, screw the bloody holy war crap. They help us when we come in to help them. We do have problems there, but some of them actually help us.
They’re not all running around all over the planet trying to take out Westerners, U.S. Citizens, Jews, or Israelis.
Do we nuke them or bombard them off the planet just to get to the bad guys?
In the instance of Japan, there was a clearly defined situation where tens of thousands of U.S. troops were at stake, if we didn’t end the war without a full scale invasion.
Here’s another down-side to us using nukes again. If we do it, other nations get a green light. Today if another nation uses them, they are an instant pariah. If we’ve already done it, not so much. They get a green light of sorts.
I think there is an argument to be made to simply mow these pricks down as they move their convoy and forces around Iraqi territory. Just send in some munitions and eradicate massive numbers of them.
Other than that, attack training camps. Just eradicate these people from the face of the planet.
If it’s a terrorist camp, just drop a daisy cutter on it and be done with it.
Execute the guys you pick up off the field of battle. Quit playing by humane rules. Absolutely never hand back generals of these operations. Disappear them. Send back their head to their operations unit.
We’ve played by idiotic rules. That’s why they’re emboldened. They don’t think we’ll come back in.
I’d send the message to 50 different targets in one morning to make it clear that’s not the case. 25,000 fewer terrorists... all in all a very good start to a new ugly future for those who wish to their lives terrorizing others.
Anything less than my proposal leaves the sub-animals an opening to cause mayhem.
They are a disease that needs to be eradicated, period.
That’s why I wrote in my first post “The America that we knew” or thereabouts. Back then even a RAT like Truman knew what needed to be done against a fanatical foe and did it.
Intestinal fortitude is rapidly disappearing in this country and with it goes the country, or at least what I’d call “America”. Whatever’s left isn’t going to be worth a bucket of piss.
“...Many Iraqis want to live in peace, screw the bloody holy war crap. They help us when we come in to help them. ...”
True that. The terrorist elements read their Mao and do the whole “fish hiding in a sea of fish” thing. Getting the people there to out the bad guys is the key.
The PROBLEM is, once they out them, and we leave, they’re still there, and will have to be dealt with. The key is training folks to be able to - and have the WILL power to - defend themselves from these animals.
“...Execute the guys you pick up off the field of battle. Quit playing by humane rules....”
Absolutely agree.
I think there is an argument to be made to simply mow these pricks down as they move their convoy and forces around Iraqi territory. Just send in some munitions and eradicate massive numbers of them.
in a sane world/US gubmint, both options are doable, *IF* we were still strong enuff PC-wise to tell the world to get bent if they dont like it, or if they try to follow our lead using the big weapons...
we dont even dare hit the armies and crush their ability to fight, dating back to before the 'road of death' in papa bush's spanking of iraq...we allowed a large part of his armies go home to fight another day, because we didnt want the world to think we were bullies [spit]...
we cant nuke their civilian populations and wont commit wholesale slaughter of their men-wimmi&children at arms, so why in hell spend a drop of our blood there, when eventually theyll be here anyway ???
like i said before, our policies/actions have all been, by design, meant to fail, securing the rise of the muzz power base to finally eradicate the joos and any other infidels in the general area...
*if* they succeed, then ultimately theyll need to kill the rest of us, either before or after they return to killing each other as the untrue version of mo-ham-head-eans [piss & bacon be upon them]...