KILL, DON'T CAPTURE

New York Post ^ | July 10, 2006 | Ralph Peters

[yoe]

[snip] Consider today's norm: A terrorist in civilian clothes can explode an IED, killing and maiming American troops or innocent civilians, then demand humane treatment if captured - and the media will step in as his champion. A disguised insurgent can shoot his rockets, throw his grenades, empty his magazines, kill and wound our troops, then, out of ammo, raise his hands and demand three hots and a cot while he invents tales of abuse.

[tsmith130]

Great minds think alike! We even put the same snippet in our comments!

[Tribune7]

Makes sense to me.

[McGavin999]

I've been saying this now for years. There is only a very limited amount of intelligence we can gain from these guys and most of what we gain is from the papers we sieze or their computers. If we had been killing them right from the start, fewer of them would have decided to leave home and join the jihad, but since they are treated better after they are captured than they have ever been treated in their lives, there is little to deter them.

[SoFloFreeper]

Consider today's norm: A terrorist in civilian clothes can explode an IED, killing and maiming American troops or innocent civilians, then demand humane treatment if captured - and the media will step in as his champion. A disguised insurgent can shoot his rockets, throw his grenades, empty his magazines, kill and wound our troops, then, out of ammo, raise his hands and demand three hots and a cot while he invents tales of abuse.

ALL OF THIS made possible by three institutions: the Democrat Party (liberals in government), the MainStream Media (liberals in the press), and the United Nations (liberals on the global stage).

[Enterprise]

In a time of war, when American soldiers are being killed, or captured and tortured, the Democrats support the enemy. The enemy has blood on their hands, and it drips from the teeth of their allies, the Democrat jackals.

[cripplecreek]

The fewer prisoners we take the better.

[Unicorn]

Works for me.

[Apercu]

Just like killing cockroaches - you wouldn't keep one alive to find out where the others live.

[Dixie Yooper]

We will need to quit embedding reporters with our troops if we change to this tactic.

[GBA]

Kill all terrorists except the ones who have some information and would be executed after a speedy military trial.

[silverleaf]

While this makes battlefield sense and has from the beginning, I simply do not know of any modern conflict that has ended in stable perpetuity because one side was able to kill all the other side.

By perverting the "Geneva Convention" into a US civil rights document, liberal lawyers have essentially neutered it as a military treaty.

[wvobiwan]

Don't forget the liberal activists on the SCOTUS...they contributed to this farce more than most.

[Publius6961]

I have always felt that way.
Further, I consider "rules of war" an oxymoron.

The concept is pretty simple: hide among civilians and wage or support murder?
Die.

[BluH2o]

A terrorist in civilian clothes can explode an IED, killing and maiming American troops or innocent civilians, then demand humane treatment if captured - and the media will step in as his champion.

As evidenced by the NY Times obsession with abu Garib ... 140 stories in the first two months (most on the front page) after the so called atrocities came to light. More recently two U.S. soldiers were captured by terrorists, tortured and horribly mutilated, to the extent when their bodies were found it took DNA testing to identify the remains. The NY Times gave the story one day of front page coverage ... after that, no further reference to the incident.

[AdvisorB]

Gore is preaching tolerance. If he had been elected, the Islamists would have been setting off carbombs in the USA.

[TET1968]

...and this, teach children at an early age not to throw rocks at people who have guns.
They need to know it's not worth a Kent State photo op.

[Vigilanteman]

And, once captured, there's no way to dispose of them.

This is the only statement in the article with which I disagree.

[Obadiah]

That about sums it up.