Posted on 01/09/2005 7:54:06 AM PST by PopGonzalez
"A report says government officials are reviewing a page from their old playbook to help deal with Iraqi guerrillas: sending special forces to train "death squads" to help install order."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Imagine that. Killing the enemy attackers. What will they think of next........
Or, you could quit trying to hijack this thread, and post that on the half-million other threads here devoted to that subject.....
Slab on Grade?
Has everyone forgotten Soviet experiences in Afghanistan and Russian experiences in Chechnya? (Not to mention that this strategy failed for the Nazis in occupied areas as well).
No kidding! I've believed we need to fight this war with ruthlessness. Our enemy will do no less. We will never win it trying to be noble and chivalrous.
Who cares what the "enlightened" Europeans and American Left thinks.
Um, yeah. Colombia's the model we want to follow.
You must cut this cancer out. These are not "good" Iraqis we are fighting. These are mainly former Bathists and foreign terrorists. You are not going to win any "hearts and minds" with this group.
With that said, what would your solution be?
Like shotgun squads in the convenience store, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
Then by all means let the Israelies train them!
Those countries always catch all the breaks. Meantime America herself is lousy with leftists.
Sounds good to me.
Nazis? Nazis didn't hunt down anybody. They used reprisal to keep the people down. One of mine, 10 of yours.
“Death Squad” is a media term, and in this case bares little resemblance to the notorious death squads of Latin America. This would be an operation where soldiers kill terrorists who call themselves “soldiers”. It is far better than dropping 500 pound bombs in residential neighborhoods.
You cannot argue with the results we got by stopping the cartels that had a strangle hold on the country (which was the objective). Unfortunately, a corrupt government came to power and turned a blind eye to the drug activity in the jungles which in turned fueled a rebellion.
Hopefully we learned from the mistakes made with Phoenix.
Be careful with that suggestion - two examples of her helping with children spring to mind - Waco where dozens of children burned to death at her instigation and Elian Gonzales who returned to Cuba at the point of a gun pursuant to her orders...Now, if we sent her and told the "good" Iraqui's that she would be in charge of their children unless they assisted in finding the perps, you would have a solution.
Good idea, probably needs a more obfuscatory name.
A Hellfire missile, Howitzer, or 500 lb. bomb is a less discriminant "death squad". A Special Forces trained group could better than munitions separate the combatants from the innocent.
Remember the CIA's Provincial Interrogation Center Program?
Rather effective. From a U.S. Army history:
On the same day the Viet Cong who had been detained were sent to a combined interrogation center established by the Mobile Intelligence Civil Affairs Team and Vietnamese provincial officials at the province capital. Later, the interrogation reports provided information that the enemy elements encountered had been a platoon-size cadre and a newly recruited Viet Cong company. The cadre was reportedly equipped only with small arms, and the company had few weapons. The search for the Viet Cong continued through 5 July and ambushes were again established during the night.
Seems to have worked.
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