“-—mildly retarded frontline troops.” I guess you mean the inbred sister banging, goat humping sons of moohamed-—just to clarify and put a fine point on it?
What I want is a declaration of war. A real one, that Congress signs on to and that the American people have to live with. This war in the shadows stuff is garbage and sets a dangerous precedent. What should have happened? This post sums it up (not from me):
One of the problems with the “war on terror” is that “terror” is a tactic, not an enemy.
ISIS has declared itself to be the Islamic State. Now we have an entity against whom to wage war. It might be prudent to recognize the Islamic State and then, in the same breath, formally declare war on them. We will, of course, obey all of the laws of warfare including the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of POWs. (GWB was a fool not to have granted Al Qaeda POW status....) Of course, the Geneva Conventions require that combatants wear uniforms, and provides that combatants OUT of uniform may be summarily executed as spies or saboteurs. I’m not aware that any AQ fighters ever wore anything remotely resembling a uniform, so if we had recognized AQ as a Geneva Convention entity, we’d be absolutely within our rights to empty Gitmo with hangings. Which would have eliminated the declared “caliph”, who would have danced the Danny Deever.
Having formally declared war against IS, we could seize their commerce and funds, and then declare them as being guilty of war crimes, and exercised other powers that cannot really be used against an amorphous “terrorist” enemy.
Of course, this all assumes a leader who might have some intestinal fortitude, which our current “leader” does not.
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Put the guy who said that in the Oval Office and let him run things for the next 4 years.