US general says carpet bombing against 'our values'

inn ^ | 2/1/16 | Gil Ronen

[The Right wing Infidel]

one of the greatest generals of all time Curtis LeMay would role in his grave hearing this nonsense coming from the pathetic generals of this era

[NorthMountain]

carpet bombing the terrorists would be "inconsistent with our values."

Speak for yourself, 0bamorrhoid ...

[Zionist Conspirator]

So I take it it was wrong of us to win World War II.

[NorthMountain]

We had no trouble carpet-bombing Germans and Japanese in the 1940s.

We had no trouble carpet-bombing Koreans and Chinese in the 1950s.

We had no trouble carpet-bombing Vietnamese, Chinese, and the occasional (vigorously denied) Russian in the 1960s and 1970s.

We had no trouble carpet-bombing Arabs in the 1990s.

We’d have no trouble carpet-bombing Arabs and Persians today, if we didn’t have the “muslim brotherhood” running the country.

[dfwgator]

I predict before long, history teachers will take the side of the Japanese.

“Japan just wanted to kick the European colonists out of Asia, and the US refused to sell them oil.”

[SoFloFreeper]

Yeah, I trust this guy. Not.

[Zionist Conspirator]

I predict before long, history teachers will take the side of the Japanese.

"Japan just wanted to kick the European colonists out of Asia, and the US refused to sell them oil."

I think they already do. At least they don't get the treatment the Germans do. The Germans are, after all, white people, while the Japanese are a quaint "indigenous people" (except they ain't "indigenous") whose unique culture fully justified horrific medical experiments in Manchuria, the Rape of Nanking, comfort women, the Bataan Death March, barbaric treatment of POWs, and the "death railway" in Thailand and Burma. How dare you judge another culture by your own standards, Whitey???

Although I must admit the Japanese--even the most pro-Nazi such as Matsuoka--never advocated or took part in the Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jewish People in toto (G-d forbid!).

[bert]

just for the record...... who and where would you carpet bomb to get ISIS?

[Salvavida]

I hear you. But we still have a fundamental issue dealing with breakers of the Law of Land Warfare; specifically the falsehood that we need to maintain the morale high-ground. It keeps creeping back into policy

And I disagree we didn't carpet bomb the Vietnamese like we should have because we were afraid on the Chinese entering the war. Nor did we hold to Viet Cong to a strict standard.

[Chgogal]

Who are these nambipambi generals? How the hell did we defeat Germany, Japan and Italy?

[NorthMountain]

And I disagree we didn't carpet bomb the Vietnamese like we should have

"... like we should have." That's an arguable proposition. We did a lot of things we shouldn't have, and didn't do a lot of things we should have in Viet Nam. Kennedy and Johnson were both idiots. OTOH, anybody who was on the wrong end of Arc Light might disagree with the idea that he hadn't been carpet-bombed.

[NorthMountain]

specifically the falsehood that we need to maintain the morale high-ground

I disagree that we should abandon the 'moral high ground'. I also disagree with this idiot McFarland as to where the 'moral high ground' might be found. If the bad guys choose to hide among civilians, and we bomb the crap out of the bad guys, and some civilians are killed ...

Who is to blame for those dead civilians?

I say it's the bad guys. They're the ones who wallow in immoral conduct unnecessarily endangering civilians.

[Salvavida]

When national survival is at stake, it’s all good. That is what I mean by abandoning morale high ground. Example: a policy the prevents us from “scaring” prisoners. I am not talking about unlimited murder. Collateral damage is and always has been accepted.

[Lurker]

Curtis LeMay must be doing pretty neat 30,000 rpm by now.

L

[Jim Robinson]

Trump says he’d bomb the hell out of them.

[Delta 21]

Lighten up Francis. There is a time and place for everything.

[Lurker]

Which is why he’s got my vote.

L

[Chgogal]

I trust him to knit my socks. ; )

[NorthMountain]

Collateral damage is and always has been accepted.

We (Americans) have generally tried to minimize it. Even in WWII, when we were heavily bombing Europe, we (at great risk and expense) preferred daylight "precision" bombing to maximize bombs on military/industrial targets and minimize bombs on civilian areas. For the most part, we specifically rejected (as immoral and ineffective) the British approach of bombing civilian areas. We were right to do so.

Problems arise when the bad guys deliberately place military/industrial targets within the civilian population as the Japanese and Viet Cong did, and as ISIS (et al) do today. When the bad guys willfully endanger the civilian population, the bad guys accept responsibility for the excess collateral damage.

[JimRed]

Bombing the right carpet is the key. Buh-bye, Mecca!