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Ralph Peters: US Must ‘Leave Behind Smoking Ruins and Crying Widows’ Fighting Terrorism (video)
breitbart.com/video ^ | 1-9-2015 | Ian Hanchett

Posted on 01/10/2015 3:43:59 AM PST by servo1969

Peters said the plan for fighting war is “one, you accept that you are in a war. Two, you name the enemy: Islamist terrorists. Three, you get the lawyers off the battlefield and out of the targeting cell. You accept there will be collateral damage, and do you not apologize for it, you do not nation build. You don’t hold — try to hold ground. You go wherever in the world the terrorists are and you kill them. You do your best to exterminate them, and then you leave, and you leave behind smoking ruins and crying widows. If in five or ten years they reconstitute and you have got to go back, you go back and you do the same thing and you never never never send American troops into a war you don’t mean to win.” And “be as merciless as the enemy, if you’re not willing to do that, they will win.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: oreilly; peters; ralphpeters; terrorism
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To: DoodleDawg

one has to cut their funding...

at the moment - there are large US banks allowing Arab overlords to hold properties and accounts in the US - with that - those same overlords of moslem royalty are funding terrorist organizations and thinking both ends don’t meet...

the Patriot Act was suppose to force US banks to stop doing business with Arab entities that do this...it has not as of yet...one reason is that DoJ and POTUS stance...

call it treason...it’s the nearest word that defines the situation...


21 posted on 01/10/2015 4:33:34 AM PST by BCW (ARMIS EXPOSCERE PACEM)
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To: Biggirl

Liberals are still on LSD and haven’t gone to bed yet. Coffee is a thousand years away for these people.


22 posted on 01/10/2015 4:35:14 AM PST by deadrock (I is someone else.)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

Why bother to make the effort? It is better to just kill Assad off and get it over with.

Molly coddling is counter productive.

(that applies to many Americans that are actually enemies as well)


23 posted on 01/10/2015 4:40:15 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: servo1969

Best line of the decade: “Daisy-cutters trump a wiretap anytime.” - Nicole Gelinas- NY Post - 02-10-04


24 posted on 01/10/2015 4:41:23 AM PST by petercooper ("How To Destroy The Country In 6 Short Years" by Barack Obama & the Democrats)
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To: servo1969

“”Three, you get the lawyers off the battlefield and out of the targeting cell.””

Why? They should not be there. Leave them part of the smoking ruins and the dead bodies.

If they try to interfere at a later date then that can be handled by
3a; Remove all liberal judges who would support lawyers that would interfere with military actions.

Bases covered.


25 posted on 01/10/2015 4:43:50 AM PST by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it)
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To: servo1969

Retired Lt. Col Ralph Peters is absolutely correct, but the Moslem-Marxist’s administration has no desire to take affirmative action.


26 posted on 01/10/2015 4:45:17 AM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: servo1969

Col. Hunt added pressure through banks and economic is spot on...too many of these Arab nations have Sharia Banking in place and are funding their accounts worldwide...their will always be ready jihadis to join the fight...but the funding is also a prime element...

http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/jl2308.aspx

This explains it all - lists the nations - and is basically saying that the US knows - but is not acting on this intelligence due to the current POTUS!!!


27 posted on 01/10/2015 4:48:04 AM PST by BCW (ARMIS EXPOSCERE PACEM)
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To: servo1969

The attitude during WWII was one of national sacrifice. Conscription, rationing, etc. See how far that gets you now.


28 posted on 01/10/2015 4:56:18 AM PST by Wolfie
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To: petercooper

Your date tag is ambiguous.


29 posted on 01/10/2015 4:58:49 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (This is known as "bad luck". - Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Biggirl

Don’t bet your life on it.


30 posted on 01/10/2015 4:59:48 AM PST by aquila48
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To: Nervous Tick

As long as the libs worship relativism, Christianity, grace, good works, care for the poor etc are no better that head chopping, slaughter of innocents, FGM, marrying little girls, stoning apostates, worshipping a moon rock, etc. If we can’t honestly say one culture is better than another, then we won’t have the will to defend ours and we will, at a minimum, respect theirs. But the reality is far worse as we invite the enemy to live and plot among us.

You need to somehow reverse 2 or 3 generations of brainwashing which is hard to do and takes time and regaining control of education.

This game will change only when they finally detonate 2 or 3 nukes in western cities.


31 posted on 01/10/2015 5:01:43 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: servo1969

No more ROE crap!


32 posted on 01/10/2015 5:26:03 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

Between Assad & ISIS, Assad is clearly the lesser of the two evils.

We Jeffersonian idealists must accept that the only stable form of government in the Middle East outside of Israel is secular dictatorship.

Give the devil his due: Christians were better off under Saddam that in the current Islamic Republic of Iraq. Was Mesopotamia depopulated of its 2,000 year old Christian community while Saddam ruled?

Secular dictators can and usually are evil SOBs. But their urge to inflict harm pales next to ISIS murderous fanaticism. “Don’t mess with me & I’ll leave you alone” is the social compact that dictators make.

“Allahu Akbar!!!” is a license to kill in huge numbers & without end.


33 posted on 01/10/2015 5:28:21 AM PST by elcid1970 ("I am a radicalized infidel.")
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To: servo1969

And also, Col. Peters, in your own words, “BE FEARED... DO NOT BE AFRAID TO BE POWERFUL... DO NOT WORRY ABOUT ALIENATING ALREADY-HOSTILE POPULATIONS...”


34 posted on 01/10/2015 6:36:01 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Muslim Creeping Conquest of America and Canada)
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To: servo1969

Butcher and Bolt.
But you need to be ruthless.
And we won’t be.


35 posted on 01/10/2015 6:59:12 AM PST by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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To: servo1969
I forget who it was so I can't give credit but a FReeper articulated my feelings very well on how they wanted the "War on Terror" to go.

200 years from now, I want their children's children's children's children to cower and cringe in fear whenever they hear the sounds of jet engines overhead because their legends tell of fire from the sky.
I want them to hide in dark caves and holes in the earth, shivering with terror whenever they hear the roar of diesel engines because the tales of their ancestors talk about metal monsters crawling over the earth, spitting death and destruction.
I want their mothers to be able to admonish them with "If you don't behave, the Pale Destroyers will come for you", and that will be enough to reduce them to quivering obeisance.
I want the annihilation to be so complete that their mythology will tell them of the day of judgment when the stern gods from across the sea .. the powerful 'Mericans .. destroyed their forefathers' wickedness.

36 posted on 01/10/2015 7:07:33 AM PST by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: All

I’ve proposed this a few months ago. An international force comprised of 1,000,000 volunteers backed by naval and air forces should act like the pirates from the final battle against the orcs in Lord of the Rings. Just swarm over all the middle east killing everything that moves, including the House of Saud. Then ask Africa if they require assistance in ridding themselves of the muslim virus. The western powers should ask Russia and China to commit forces as well but be willing to go it alone if necessary.

I’d volunteer tomorrow if it meant ending the islamic threat for my children.


37 posted on 01/10/2015 7:08:31 AM PST by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: bert
The women are not innocents...... they are the enemy

Breeders of future terrorists.
38 posted on 01/10/2015 7:23:22 AM PST by Old Yeller (Civil rights are for civilized people.)
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To: deadrock

....Do not tell that to them. They will say well there is the “Starbucks” down the street.


39 posted on 01/10/2015 8:03:20 AM PST by Biggirl (2014 MIdterms Were BOTH A Giant Wave And Restraining Order)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Give it time I will be right.


40 posted on 01/10/2015 8:05:37 AM PST by Biggirl (2014 MIdterms Were BOTH A Giant Wave And Restraining Order)
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