Old Sicilian Bensohurst (Brooklyn) code.
Posted on 10/22/2006 8:59:58 PM PDT by LibWhacker
If one reads the editorials in many American major newspapers, it would seem that the war in Iraq is a total loss. They seem to say that there is no way to win--ever. What many liberals call nothing more than a “band of thugs” has defeated the mighty American military. Perhaps we should just surrender to them. Of course, all 140,000 of our troops there would be summarily tortured and beheaded, but that is the price of being bested by thugs. They say that It’s over, and the Islamic terrorists have won.
This unconditional surrender has been issued by liberal ex-generals, liberal politicians, the liberal media, and, of course, the liberals that will be running for president in a year. Even some “cut-and-run” Republicans are weeping about how badly the war is going in Iraq. They say that a “change of course” is needed. Translated, that means: ''Remove our troops from Iraq because we can’t beat the terrorists, and the war is lost. America needs to cut its losses and run.''
To press the point, many liberals are even attempting to convince Americans that there really is no war with Islamic terrorists. Forget that attack on 9/11. Forget all the promises to destroy America. Forget Iran and its desire for nuclear weapons so that it can start a nuclear holocaust. Forget that bin Laden and al Qaeda declared war on America twice in the 1990's. Forget that Islamic religious leaders have given their blessing to the terrorists to detonate nukes in our major cities. Forget that Islamics have completed their cycle of three offers to convert to Islam or die. Forget all of that, since the terrorists didn’t really mean it. To listen to liberals, you would decide that the Islamics were just kidding.
The Naysayers are right about only one thing: America does need a change of course in Iraq. We need to remember that this is a war. Wars are ugly. Wars have always been ugly. War should be ugly. This makes people hesitate before starting one. But once a war has begun, there is only one option, and that option is to win. War is not a game. War is not an exercise in humanity at its best. War is not about “winning the hearts and minds” of the enemy. War is about killing the enemy before he kills you.
At least, that is way war used to be. Now America is fighting a politically correct war. And that's why we are not winning.
When Americans fought, clawed, and died gaining a foothold in Europe on June 6, 1944, they did not jump out of those landing craft and airplanes with the idea of winning anyone’s heart or mind. They were there to kill German soldiers, who were equally intent on killing them.
As our Marines struggled and died on Iwo Jima, they were not exchanging pleasantries with the Japanese soldiers or explaining to them how America would help them rebuild Japan after our bombs leveled their cities. Those Marines has no intention of becoming “buddies” with the enemy.
World War II is the last war that America has won. We won World War II because we knew we were fighting a war. Political correctness was unheard of during World War II. Our soldiers did not have CNN following them around with cameras. We did not have media outlets gleefully receiving video from the enemy and then obliging them by putting it on American television to convince the populous that the war is lost. Can you imagine what would have happened if there had been television in the 1940’s and an American newsreels played propaganda films of the Third Reich killing American troops?
CNN officials from the network that refuses to show footage of the innocent victims of 9/11 leaping to their deaths rather than suffocate because it’s too graphic, didn’t hesitate to air a film given to them “from their contact with the Iraqi insurgents” showing Islamic snipers shooting American soldiers. What would Ernie Pyle have thought of that? If video had been available of the Bataan Death March would it have shown on theater newsreels to demoralize the American people? Wouldn’t this have been proof that America was loosing the war? What if an embedded cameraman had been with the soldiers that landed in the middle of a city occupied by German soldiers? Those soldiers were picked off like turkeys in a turkey shoot. They never had a chance. Would that cameraman's film have convinced Americans that the war was lost?
We need a change, and that is certain. But not the change the liberals want. We need to return to the spirit of the 1940’s when America knew how to win wars. America needs to get tough.
First, the words “politically correct” need to be banned from the English language followed immediately by politically correctness concerning war and victory over our enemies becoming an act of treason. Our troops are not in Iraq to win the “hearts and minds” of the people. They are there to win a war. They are there to kill and break the backs of the enemy.
Second, any film received from the enemy to American media outlets should be turned over to authorities along with the name of the “contact” who gave it to them.
Third, the Iraqi government has had its chance. Time is up. The entire elected government should be put somewhere safe, isolated to prevent leaks, and informed that there is a time-out. To use a football analogy, there is a flag on the field. Americans are now taking control of the situation. We will be in control until there no longer is a situation. Why? Because we can.
The weasel known as Muqtada al-Sadr should be hunted down and eliminated. He should not be arrested or detained. The land that Al-Sadr and his entire army occupy should become a large bomb crater. We could then erect a large sign: “Here lies what is left of a man and his army who challenged American military might. We tried to be nice, he blew it.”
Then some smaller city that is a known stronghold for terrorists could be chosen. The citizens of that city would have one hour to turn over all foreign Islamic terrorists to the American military. Shooting them and tossing their bodies in the streets would be an acceptable alternative. Only women, children, and old people would be allowed to leave the city. Included in the cleaning would be any Iraqi who has shot at Americans, set off a car bomb, gunned down innocent Iraqi civilians, planted roadside bombs, or is a member of any Iraqi terrorist group. If the residents of the city refuse to turn these terrorists over, our bombers would start at one end of the city and not stop until the people got the message that we mean business. If the entire city is leveled, so be it. We will no longer have to worry about that city protecting terrorists.
We should then move on to every city in Iraq and repeat what was done until we get to Baghdad. It would not take long for Islamic terrorists to flee the country for their lives. Basically, they are cowards. They know they cannot defeat the American military if the leash of political correctness was removed. Of course, we would have the borders covered to gun them down as they run. If this sounds barbaric, is it any worse than what is going on there now?
I would search our military for a George Patton. If he wasn’t a general, I would make him one. Then, I would tell him to take Iraq. I would tell the United Nations to shut up and sit down. I would make sure that Iran and Syria got a constant live video feed of what was going on in Iraq. Then, I would send Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a short and to-the-point message: “You’re next.”
You want to win a war? Keep the politics out of it and realize that there is nothing “correct” about war. The point is to win as fast as possible to end the misery of all concerned. Worry about winning the “hearts and minds” of those who have a heart and a mind AFTER you defeat those who have neither.
The question needs to be asked.
No.
Thanks for asking, though.
Good article.
BTTT!
I heard a caller on Michael Savage suggest that we need to go ahead and negotiate terms of surrender and we should do this now because if we wait too long the terms will be terms of unconditional surrender.
Old Sicilian Bensohurst (Brooklyn) code.
If you listen to the 'RAT "media," the only way the GOP can win next month is if we follow the DemocRATS' lead by surrendering to the Islamofascists and trading in our cowboy hats for burqas like they did.
Good article...and so true.
thanks for posting it.
Did Savage agree with the caller??
I wouldn't doubt it...he has gone a wee bit more loopy lately.
We should then move on to every city in Iraq and repeat what was done until we get to Baghdad.
This is pretty much how the Russians crushed Chechnya. I was in St. Petersburg watching it happen on Russian TV in Jan and March of 2002.
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America should face the possibility that Islam itself is the issue.
BTTT
Late but the right idea.
People need to be educated to critically think and then they would be able to see thru the lie driven agenda of the Left. They need to know that war isn't like a drive-thru or microwave. It takes time. Secondly, learn about the losses that were sustained in other conflicts and battles. It they think that 2700 is really over-the-top then consider that 2400 were lost in just the practice run for D-Day. And that's just for starters.
How did Savage respond?
That was the mindset of my time. I doubt that I will live long enough to see it again.
It is a good memory though.
The surrender has already happened: In 1968 when LBJ surrendered to Cronkite's lies about the Tet offensive and gave a ruthless enemy force, the institutional media culture, an unaccountable and unchecked voice in the formulation of policy.
The institutional media culture, the "MSM," is no more the Free Press of the Founding Fathers than was Goebbels' propaganda ministry. In one respect it is worse; Goebbels at least did not conceal his totalitarian agenda.
It must first be overthrown before this new enemy can be defeated. Websites like this one and Little Green Footballs are essentially the rally points for a new American Revolution.
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