But I love reading about the SEALS and the SPETSNAZ...
I heard about a horror, but I didn't put two and two together.
Those Russkies are totally evil (me USA, I believe) , but what the fuck, they didn't taste anymore raids!!
I don't think I could do that, but in War you can't be weak...
if a bud came back and he was cut up, I would authorize full-fledged knife OPS!!!
I guess the prevailing factor here is sometimes the only message these terrorists are going to hear is a very simple very violent statement. It seemed to work for Russia (after that '85 incident the PLO, or any Arab terrorist group, never messed with them again to this day). It may have been exceedingly violent, and morally questionable, but it worked! Soviet officials could basically walk in Beirut streets as if they owned the darn place!
I wonder what would happen if we used 'gehenna' tactics against those crazy Islamist jehadis! For example (since we were talkign about the Sopranos some time ago) what if we were to employ the stratagems depicted in the movie SwordFish? Just in case you have not watched the movie its basic essence is this group that acquires funds (through rather nefarious means) and plans to organize itself into an elite 'hunter-killer' unit that hunts down terrorists that attack the USA! However there methods are novell! What they do is they use the terrorists own techniques against him! Bomb a US base they bomb several residential blocks in the Mid East and so on!
What if such actions were taken? Obviously the international community would rant and rave, but something tells me that if we were serious about it and raised the ante whenever the terrorists got another message from 'allah' things would become better (maybe?)!
After all the 1985 Spetsnaz solution made the Soviets (and the Russians now) hands off to Arab terrorist organizations! Think of it ....if you are the average Islamic jehadi you are prepared to die and become a 'matyr' (which is why they can strap semtex to their bodies and blow themselves up). However would they be willing to see their family members kidnapped and their heads been sent the next morn? I really doubt that!
Horrible and definitely sinful ....but nonetheless effective!
Should we (or even could we) do it! Chances are no! However in another dimension if it was applied i think it would work perfectly (even though i personally would not advocate hunting down peoples families and chopping them up for no fault of their own apart from giving birth to kooks .....however it would work nonetheless).