Posted on 05/31/2013 10:02:23 AM PDT by billybudd
Dang autocorrect!
That should be:
...through the roof and lot’s of Intel showed increased danger....
The gov’t should kill only the terrorists,....Which ARE the Muzzies. I’m sorry if you can’t grasp THAT FACT.
Sir, I don’t agree with you wholeheartedly, but I do respect your argument and appreciate your point of view. I would like to apologize for the treatment you have received on this forum, which usually avoids the type of personal attacks you have received here. I’m sorry about that, and I admire your persistence in pressing your point of view.
That is not to say that counterinsurgency should be devoid of violent response. But that response needs to be targeted at those actually carrying out the attacks, or else you just build local sympathy for the insurgents.
Turning the other cheek is neither practical nor logical, but often suicidal.
They provided sanctuary for Al Queda so that Bin Laden could murder close to 3,000 Americans in one day. This soldier had served four tours of duty before he cracked. He should be hospitalized and receive help for his mental condition. Personally I have doubts anytime innocent victims is used to describe any one in that throwback to the 7th century. Some of those innocents are setting IED's off pretty regularly!!!!
I read it. There are points that I disagreed with based on the kind of ruthlessness deployed and the actual targeting parameters. Even the Russians displayed emotional content in their attempt. We sure as heck did in VietNam. You must be totally detached and fight your enemy as they fight you.
What I propose, in lieu of laying waste, is pulling all our military assets home (from everywhere and sealing our borders) and only project power via strategic weapons. We should never, I repeat never, put boots on the ground anywhere we do not intend on occupying on a indefinite timeline. Which we will never do again because we as a society have lost our edge to survive and take the heat and being called imperialist. we had rather be everyone’s friend and try and buy cooperation/loyalty from people who have no concept of cooperation/loyalty outside a primitive bond to a false god.
No other cultures’ life value should be placed above ours. It is time we practice self-preservation for a while.
What backfired in VietNam was a lack of leadership and a willingness to bring a prejudiced end to the conflict couple with a movement at home of dispassionate hedonism. The first mistake was going there, the second was not having the will to do what it took to win, counterinsurgency or not.
Thank you for your comment, I appreciate it.
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