Obastard doesn’t even want to kill members of ISIS.
It's the same with terrorism. If we care about the people in the Middle East, we ought to rain down death and destruction on them.
Seriously. It will save lives.
“Stopping ISIS will require a willingness to either put boots on the ground or accept heavy civilian casualties. We once again have a choice between “Shock and Awe” or years of occupation.”
Agreed, but there is yet one more all important requirement: First, the democrats must be removed from power. Flagrant corruption within our own political system must be killed. Justice must be brought to the enemy within.... or it’s all a waste of blood, money and time.
Thank you for sharing that.
he was able to crystalize things and help me.
I will use this as it explains it so well
‘War is ugly. It is made moral by why it is fought, not by how it is fought.”
Stopping ISIS will require a willingness to either put boots on the ground or accept heavy civilian casualties.
We can break ISIS if we are willing to clear away the obstacles in the kill-chain by moving as quickly as the enemy does. Instead what we have is the worst of both worlds, a process of approving strikes that treats ISIS as if it were a ponderous conventional foe combined with minimal strikes better suited to the kinds of terrorist enemies we were fighting a decade ago.
On the battlefield we have to be willing to accept that if we use large scale bombing to go after a military group that uses civilians as human shields, there will be large numbers of civilian casualties. But that number will be far less than what it would be if ISIS gets to carry out its genocides and continues to drag out the war across the region.
Obama was warned about I.S. as far back as January this year, at least. Kurds in Iraq warned Obama admin. His admin chose to do nothing.
From another FR thread a couple of weeks ago: #16
Bombing is just another form of artillery.
Artillery can disorient enemy formations and pin them down for destruction by infantry formations. It can destroy physical structures. It can kill lots of civilians.
Its use in combat INSTEAD OF infantry, against troops filled with blood lust and the drive to conquer, is a sign of cowardice, a positive motivational factor for the enemy, and it never works.
Well Duh!
All terrorists are civilians.
The country that really pays for this moralistic crap is Israel. They know a building is a tunnel entrance, but rather than just take it down, they have to go in there, booby traps and all, and verify no civilians. Insane, and VERY COSTLY to that small country.
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