Recently Sean Hannity had a rare original thought, or he gleaned an original thought from someone else, which is also rare for him. He talked about the stupidity of sacrificing our troops just to prevent collateral damage. Why should we risk the lives of our sons to protect people who we don’t know, who won’t deal with the problem themselves, and often support our enemies? So we go door to door in Fallujah, hundreds of Americans die, just so we can save the lives of people who will not reciprocate that kindness.
But here are the fruits of postmodernism. We have no sense of certainty. We should never fight another war while plagued with this idiotic philosophy.
War is brutal, dirty, dangerous. People die, combatants and non-combatants alike. Soldiers, women and children. Cities are laid to waste, countries are destroyed. People and governments avoid war except as a last resort.
When war becomes neat and clean, with no collateral damage, when all except the soldiers are safe and able to continue their lives with little disruption, there is no incentive to find other solutions. Countries and groups start wars at the drop of a hat.
If the world is going to defeat ISIS (who understands war) it becomes necessary to actually wage WAR. Any town, city, country harboring them needs to become a valid target. Any civilians anywhere near need to be gone or suffer with the combatants.
It’s easy to not take a stand until you realize that the ISIS guy next door is going to be the cause of you loosing your life, the lives of your family, your home and your country. As long as you can go about your life in safety you can ignore him.
I just got around to watching "Hurt Locker" this week. If it represents anything remotely close to reality one has to wonder how on God's Green Earth we have any one willing to put on the uniform.
I long for the days gone by when John Wayne could make dozens of WW II movies with out a single vulgar word. This movie paints all our fighting men as foulmouthed by using the F word so may times it was hard to edit all of them out.