Posted on 02/04/2016 8:14:42 PM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
Speaking by teleconference from Iraq, MacFarland was asked whether the U.S. should use carpet bombing strikes against Islamic State militants, a tactic proposed by Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz. He said that such indiscriminate bombing — which would kill innocent civilians as well as enemy combatants — is “inconsistent with our values†as a nation. The U.S., he said, has a guiding set of principles that govern how American forces conduct themselves on the battlefield.
“Right now we have the moral high ground and that’s where we’re going to stay,†he said, noting reports that Russia has conducted carpet bombing in Syria.
He also was asked about recent airstrikes that targeted Islamic State banks and money caches and may have killed civilians. MacFarland said there may have been three people killed in the bank strikes. But he added that they were Islamic State members and an enemy doesn’t necessarily have to have a loaded gun next to them in order to be an enemy.
He said the bank strikes were also done at times when loss of life would be minimal
I’d like to ask this perfumed prince (in a public forum, preferably) if he thinks that the firebombing of Tokyo, Hamburg, and Dresden and the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in WW2 was “inconsistent with our values.”
I’d also like to ask him if he thinks that the USAF drones attacks on individual terrorist cells over the last 7+ years have been inconsistent with those same values due to the fact that they’ve killed many non-combatants, which seems to be his criteria.
It’s really called, “shock and awe”.
I hate it when liberals with no values get on their high horse and tell us what are values are!
I want to hear the next Republican President say to the Joint Chiefs of Staff: “Rip them a new one! I’ll pay for the breakage.”
Going to hell in a hand basket.
>> He just gave the finger to the whole 8th air force in WWII. To the B-29s in Korea.
They realize where his finger is stationed.
Cant wait for the replacement of these obama stooges
obammy got rid of any real general.
Replaced em with pussy ass kissers and fags like him.
Sick Willie had no problem with it when we attacked Bosnia...
That is where I’d look, then.
And I’d need some new instructors in West Point, Annapolis, Colorado Springs, etc.
Pentagon cookie pusher.
If its so bad—why did we do it to Nazi Germany? Shouldn’t we pay Germany for this un-American act? We are the war criminals now?
First of all, that's not exactly what Cruz said. Cruz said "we should carpet bomb ISIS". Cruz did not say he advocated a "tactic" that would also kill innocent civilians. To me, Cruz used the words "carpet bomb" as a metaphor for using the full might and strength of the military to defeat ISIS. He did not imply that we should simply send waves and waves of B-52s to destroy all the civilians in the middle east.
AND DEAR GENERAL.....
EXACTLY WHAT DOES ALL THIS WEAKNES BUY US
answer: .......more dead Americans, more dead christians and never ending war....
oh geez i forgot.... that is how you make a living
playing general but not conducting war......
silly me
up for promotion....
convert to islam puts you on the fast track..... scumbag
Well, you should always leave some of the womenfolk alive, for lamenting purposes.
Actually the USAAF policy of precision bombing was focused on hitting the industrial targets with the most bombs and destroying specific locations. the RAF policy of night area bombing was “carpet bombing” where they overflew a city and dropped their bombs hoping to hit industrial targets but also intent on inflicting as much other i.e. collateral, damage as possible.
thus, LTG MacFarland is inline with the US bombing theories used in Europe during WWII.
How many exactly?
I guess it depends on the volume you want to achieve...
:)
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