Posted on 07/24/2016 5:21:45 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
Quote from a WWII veteran overhearing someone say that `You can't bomb an ideology."
"The hell you can't. Because we did it. These Muslims are no different than the Imperial Japanese. The Japs had their suicide bombers too. And we stopped them. What it takes is the resolve and will to use a level of brutality and violence that your generations can't stomach. And until you can, this shit won't stop. It took us on the beaches with bullets, clearing out caves with flame throwers, and men like LeMay burning down their cities killing people by the tens of thousands. And then it took 2 atom bombs on top of it. But if that was what it took to win we were willing to do it. Until you are willing to do the same...well I hope you enjoy this shit, because it ain't going to stop."
” ...Remember, only 3% of the colonials in America won the revolution. The enemy knows this too.”
They did not.
The fledgling United States won only a single strategic victory during the entire AWI: the battles of Saratoga.
The Founders (chiefly General Washington) succeeded, rather, in not losing: they kept the cause alive, avoiding total military defeat until the diplomats (Ben Franklin, with some help) convinced the French to intervene. Spain came in too, then the Netherlands. The British suddenly had a four-way world war to deal with; military forces and other resources had to be diverted to defense of other parts of their empire. Public support for retaking the American colonies declined. They cut their losses by signing the peace treaty acknowledging American independence.
Drawing generalized conclusions from historical example is an uncertain business. It only gets murkier when one is ignorant of the strategic fundamentals at the outset.
Forum members are likely correct in their estimate that Western Civ will have to get a lot rougher with the Islamics, before the odds of success turn in our favor.
After the atrocities my dad saw in the Pacific committed by the japanese soldiers, as he fought under Gen. MacArthur through 5 major battles up to Corregidor, this VETERAN is correct.
Guess this generation never heard of the Batan Death March
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bataan-death-march
“To err is human, to forgive is not SAC policy” ~ Gen C. LeMay
Many Americans may not realize that today, the Meatball flies over Iwo Jima. We gave it back to Japan many years ago.
Interesting. I was in Bad Kreuznach, Germany in 1961-1962, when my father was a teacher for the Department of Defense Dependent Schools. The Base Exchange at Wiesbaden was our favorite place to shop.
HAHAHAHAHA
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But,as a % of population a bigger proportion of Rebs died ...
Standing O, Sir.
My late father, Army veteran of WW2, Korea and Vietnam, and simple Missouri country boy with an 8th grade education would call them “ass-berts” .
“Who said
‘BOMBOMBOMB BOMBOMBIRAN?”
Steve Dahl (to the tune of Barbara Ann)
This guy just framed how I feel about this mess.
Our enemies already believe this mentally. They are doing it.
This pussy normalcy bias is furthered by white guilt and being taught to hate your own culture, parents, and history.
There were not 1.2 billion Germans in WWII.
The 10% to deal with this time is quite larger than back then. not really an equvalent comparison.
If we do that it would be a huge mental and spiritual blow to many of them. They do not fathom allah would allow infidels to do that.
My point is that the 10% or 120 million is a terrible threat.
Heck yeah, you are right there!
- A quiet voice in the Pentagon.
You’re forgetting the Battle of Trenton.
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