And I thought I was bloodthirsty...
Soldiers must live with themselves long after the war is over. And we must eventually bring them home. War sucks enough as it is; I don’t want to compound with a bunch of “Section 8” casualties. That is why, if they were competent, I’d use Afghanis. They wouldn’t have much problem with this... and I wouldn’t care.
I think we are both “bloodthirsty” the way Ulysses S. Grant was. Grant saw the only means of ending the Civil War was to crush the Army of Northern Virginia, and not dick around with the job the way his predecessors with the Army of the Potomac had. His Overland Campaign of 1864 was enormously costly to both sides, but it was better than the interminable slow bleeding that the war had already inflicted. And it resulted in victory.
Another example of the historical arguments brought up by namby-pamby liberals is over the use of atomic weapons against the Japanese. They claim the Japanese were ready to surrender and we just dropped the bombs because we were racists and wanted to intimidate Stalin. What the liberals don’t take into account, and was brilliantly argued by Richard Frank in his book “Downfall,” is that the bombs saved lives. JAPANESE lives. Because the Japanese were NOT ready to surrender, and could have dragged the war through the winter of 1945-1946. Our blockade and strategic bombing campaigns were so successful that had the war dragged on even another 90 days, MILLIONS of Japanese civilians would have died from famine and disease.
I don’t like war. I don’t want war. I did not believe we should have gone to war in Iraq; that was W’s way of taking care of daddy’s unfinished business and not a true military mission.
But if provoked to war, you go the most destructive brutal route you can right out of the starting gate because you will need to resort to shocking brutality sooner or later if you want to win. Might as well get it over with immediately and not prolong everyone’s agony. In the long run, the quick brutal solution is actually the most humane to our troops and to the enemy.
As opposed to being brought home in a bag, thats your solution?
Harry Truman didn't even know we had a nuke, but before the Roosevelt Commie staff could get his head right, he ended the war.
What he did next, in Korea, show's exactly who sets our nations policy concerning war.