Then declare war. They have tied our troops up in this politically generaled war for a dozen years now. There is no way that Patton or Eisenhower would have fought a war this way.
This has gone on far too long to pretend it’s just a reprisal.
It is IMMORAL to have our troops die for a political conflict they have no intention of trying to win.
It took almost 30 years for the British to put down the Fuzzy-Wuzzies, but put them down they most certainly did, and they proved along the way that the board-certified fire extinguisher for the burning faith of the Dervishes was a Niagara of Dervish blood. They danced them around for years, until they were ready at last to bring them to battle on prepared ground .... and then they slaughtered them without pity until the Dervish armies were dead.
That's the big leagues, amigo, and it takes a big pair to prosecute a generational war in a faraway country. That's what it took to keep Egypt and Suez British, and Aden, and the ports of northeastern Africa.
Better a generational war in Sudan, or Iraq and Persia, than a generational war in the United States with armies of Dearborn shaheedis.