Posted on 07/28/2006 6:16:36 AM PDT by Dark Skies
"We may have to do this anyways, somewhere down the line."
I keep hoping that, after the November elections, we do just that. President Bush must be concerned that his successor will not realistically understand the totality of this threat, or have the resolve to do the necessary things to quell it. There is much he can do in the over two years remaining in his term, and quite a lot of it could be directed at permanently eliminating these nutjobs, and their stoopid Islamofascist agenda.
Outstanding point! I’d only add a caution… ideas aren’t uniforms! How does one differentiate between friend and foe in a war of this sort? Surprisingly, it’s not that difficult to pick out an ideological enemy under the right circumstances. Culture plays a big role in it so we shouldn’t expect a farm boy from the heartland to do it. It’s easier to tell friends from enemies in our own culture than it is someone else’s. That’s a lesson in guerilla warfare the ancient colonial empires never learned and we’re learning the hard way. We’ve yet to engineer an effective strategy that fully leverages indigenous culture to identify our ideological enemies. One might say, "Well HUMINT, the Iraqis are standing up and they are policing their own now". I’d say we put as many friendly uniforms on our enemies as we did our friends. That made life all the tougher for our soldiers from the heartland. Unfortunately, the way we fought this war, there wasn’t much of an alternative. The problem is that nations always fight with lessons learned from the last war. Saddly, we're no different.
They are playing a dangerous game from a philosophical perspective that flips the human world view upside down. Instead of trying to solve the problems of existence, they see no solution as the best solution. Why try to fix something when it is best to let everything hit rock bottom so as to hasten the Savior's rule on Earth. Then, mankind can continue to sit back and let the world's problems be solved by the Savior. No wonder there has been little movement of these people out of the stone age.
Time for Reza Pahlavi to return to Iran and put on his Grandfather's boots and clean house!
Consider this. Machiavelli believed all society followed a sinusoidal pattern oscillating between three types:
Okay, just whom do you propose?
My comment was less about who than how. In any case, RP's plan doesn't match your suggestion.
The mullahs will never give up their power. That is why I made the comment about boots. The power that the mullahs possess has to be wrested away from them. The use of force is probably the only way it will happen. There are too many religious zealots parading around as mullahs.
the only way to fight this war is to kill all the mullahs. the average moslem is OK.
It might be too late. Generations have been indoctrinated with hatred and intolerance. Children being raised now are already entrenced with a view of death and destruction. These generations have NEVER (for the most part) seen or heard any other side or been exposed to views other than their indoctrination. If they all changed their minds today and started to accept logic and love as a thought process it would take generations to undo the damage already done, maybe longer.
It's too late. They've done too good a job on their children. There is no other solution than all out war with massive death and destruction. It's what they understand. It's what they expect and respect. We have no choice. The longer we wait the worse it'll be.
Iran flag stunt storm (Hezbollah flag flown in Iran parliament)
The Sun
Posted on 07/30/2006 11:24:27 AM EDT by markedmannerf
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1674624/posts
"the only way to fight this war is to kill all the mullahs."
A few years ago, the students marching in Iran chanted, "death to the mullahs! the mullahs must be killed!"
It is going to happen.
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