Posted on 09/24/2014 4:43:11 AM PDT by markomalley
Thank You, Lt. Col. It needed saying. Kudos to Susan Jones for printing.
Winning is losing in his book
Unfortunately its quickly becoming clear that Obama doesn’t want to kill terrorists anyway.
Uh, yeah. The idea is to scare savages into thinking they’re going to be blown to bits, not make them ponder filing an insurance claim to fix their broken TV antenna...
Absolutely!
He’s absolutely right. Military motto: kill people and break things - they forgot to do the first part.
Ralph Peters makes a good point. We wasted our element of surprise to hit antennas on the roofs of empty buildings. Now the terrorist leaders will never bunch up again. We wasted the strike.
Oh man, I'm salivating!
And his pet goat (wife!) too!
No, I think is that “winning” is actually winning, not the illusion of victory. Unfortunately, in the West, we’ve allowed ourselves to be confined to a set of rules that make victory impossible. We want bloodless, push-button victories with cruise missiles, drones and no collateral damage. What we really do is inflict pinprick damage on a foe who is able to quickly adapt and recover. That is not a formula for an MSM soundbite, but not real victory.
sorry, my comment was unclear.
Winning is losing in obama’s lexicon.
Just like he thinks he can lead from behind.
obama prefers losing
We’re putting lives at risk for a few antennas.
“We wasted our element of surprise.”
What element of surprise? When there are 5 other regional nations involved in the operation there will not be an element of surprise.
The same was true with GWI and GWII.
The first day’s strikes are more intended to destroy resources and facilities. Drones, ELINT and ISR will re-acquire the personnel in coming weeks for the aircraft and drones to strike.
Those pulling Obama’s strings are demonstrably on the side of the terrorists.
To diminish the command and control capacity, one must eliminate those in command and control - as in kill. The military term is (ironically on this case) decapitation. We’ve been doing this in the past with drones and Hellfires, so why not do the same with Mk 82 500# and CBU’s?
“The measure of success should be “acres and acres of dead terrorists,” not “knocking out windows,” Retired Army Lt. Col. Ralph Peters”.......
Lt. Col. Peters gets it, too bad the odumbo group doesn’t have the same feeling.
“Winning is losing in his book”..........
Sounds better this way, “Losing is winning in his book”
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