Unfortunately, George Bush will not fight this war to win it.
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Americans of today are not like Americans of yesterday. Americans of yesterday, facing an obstacle, rolled up their sleeves and solved the problem, regardless of the cost or time or lives involved. Defeat in achieving a goal was unacceptable, and a lifetime of hard work inured them to the belief that only hard work accomplishes goals.
Americans of today are part of the instant gratification generation. They want what they want now and don;t want to have to wait for it or work for it. It isn’t coincidental that many of our technological people are immigrants.
Their attitude towards war is similar.
Our opponents, the Muslims, are willing to wait as long as it takes, work as hard as they can, and sacrifice whatever is necessary to achieve their goal. After all, they have been waiting since the 600’s.
When you compare attitudes, we loose. Regardless of how many smart-bomds, sophisticated missiles and planes, and well-trained well-motivated and dedicated military personnel we have, we cannot win this unless the mass of Americans emulates our forefathers and adopts some of the dedication, hardheadness and willingness to sacrifice exhibited by our opponents in this war.
Unfortunately the author of this article doesn’t know how to win a war either.
These are the sort of gibbering platitudes we hear all the time.
What is needed is a clear understanding of the three major phases of war, the principle of offense, and the nature of submission.
We are now in the last stage of this war where the US must continue to apply military pressure to the states opposed to the victory in Iraq.
Syria must be attacked and defeated. Leave the remains to the French to sort out.
After Syria is crushed, Iran is next, and the Sauds after that.
Victory requires relentless offensive military action against the enemies discussed above.
Playing defense - as the US is now doing - is a losing tactic. It allows the enemy to choose the time and place of battle. In this fight the US can only chase after them in an endless war of attrition.
Submission means making the choice of surrender easy for the enemy.
The US must put enough pressure on its enemies that they choose to leave Iraq alone. If they don’t the US must continue to punish its enemies.
Have to agree we are blowing this one - once it got a little tough, we all starting pointing fingers.
Right this war is not like the Revolutionary war, War of 1812, War Between The Sates. WWI, WWII, Korean War, Cold War, Viet-Nam....where every American supported the war, where the entire world was on our side, where no mistakes were made. It might do some people some good to read a little history, before they make fools of themselves.