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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: GreyFriar
Now, as far as countries that don’t want to play ball, very simple. Pakistan doesn’t want to crack down on the Haqqani Network, we tell them ‘we are going to go in and take them out, and if you get in our way, we are going to smack your military down’…in a war you fight to win, you don’t worry about political correctness. The jihadis will do anything to win, and we’re worried about our table manners.”

Bingo!

41 posted on 01/10/2015 8:19:18 AM PST by NYer (Without justice – what else is the State but a great band of robbers? - St. Augustine)
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To: NYer

As we use to say in the field artillery “Target Hit”


42 posted on 01/10/2015 9:05:17 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Dagnabitt

RE: Massive increase in Islamic immigration to the USA after 9-11; That is/was a mistake. The only immigrants from the ME that we allowed in should have been the beleaguered Christian minority.


43 posted on 01/10/2015 9:21:42 AM PST by Gumdrop
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To: Nervous Tick

The libs waking up and smelling the coffee (i.e. Islamic terrorism) will require a miracle. Me thinks we need Divine intervention.


44 posted on 01/10/2015 9:23:42 AM PST by Gumdrop
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I think you are right. The only thing that changes this is a nuke in NYC or LA, etc

I used to think it would happen when we have our own Beslan massacre...and I still think that would cause a breakdown of society ....but, I don’t think anything short of a nuke in a major city would cause a proper milatary response = extermination


45 posted on 01/10/2015 9:33:16 AM PST by thestob
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