Posted on 11/04/2014 10:52:52 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
Applying air power has some utility but the real work of fighting them is not going to be so distant… or clean. The illusion of action is not a substitute for effective action
The Royal Canadian Air Force, (RCAF) is back in action again, dropping bombs on the slave-taking, throat-cutting rapists of ISIS. The morality of the situation is unequivocal, the effect of our contribution to the war on the new Caliphate is – alas – doubtful.
We are fighting an ideology, an idea that keeps attracting new adherents and captures their hearts and seduces their minds. This means dropping bombs on their partisans in a far off place might be a salutary idea but we are far from engaging them in a decisive arena.
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I view it this way.
The ordnance has a “use by” date.
If we employ it to kill towelheads, that’s far more useful than recycling the materials.
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