“This is not how you win hearts and minds and has not worked as an effective civlian pacification strategy since the beginning of time”
Never saw an Islamic Radical whose hearts and minds could be won let alone pacified. This to me is really stupid, and thats how we lose our boys lives. Let the military do what they do best....beat the crap outta them, win the war and then we can talk about winning hearts and minds. To me that is effective. To hell with pacification.
Go girl!
A yes, this worked so well in Iraq, which is why the war is still dragging on. Funny that a lot of our best military minds raised such a ruckus about the fact our "let God sort them out" startegy that Bush finally fired Rumsfeld and his neo-imperialists and started to put in folks who had a slightly more enlightened approach to counter-insurgency.
But go ahead and learn nothing from history, beat your head against a wall, fail at your mission and destroy our good name in the name of beating the crap out of folks you don't like. Don't let me stop you.