Posted on 06/04/2007 1:38:44 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Good news!
Go Troops Go!
You could say the same thing about the VC. But by 1969, they ceased to be effective. They existed, but not nearly what they had been in 1965.
If I was confident we would “extract” truthful worthwhile intel by ANY means necessary — I could deal with that -— But then he would become an INSTANT candidate for a firing squad as an illegal combatant with no protection under the Geneva Conventions or the “Rules of War”... NONE.
If I was confident his buds would off him for talking, I would — But I’m NOT confident..
These people have shown a remarkable ability to forgive each other in the pursuit of infidel corpses...and an unbelievable incompetence in KEEPING them incarcerated...
My call - illegal combatant, no quarter given and certainly none expected — get what you can and kill the sonuvabitch..
That is the ONLY way to avoid having to face the bastard again...
Wear a “white hat” with these bastards, and all that will earn you is a container for your severed head.
But then I'm an old curmudgeon who has always been a hard ass...
Though I am all for extraction, maybe screwing with their minds or humiliating them. I agree, the basis of the Geneva Conventions is that they are persona non grata on arrival, they are only fit for a firing squad.
Unfortunately by taking them “prisoner” that does by law imply they might be held as one.
However if we simply kill them at will, without mercy methodically and machine like, I think that like all personalities that people have they would simply acknowledge that we are the masters and they are the servants.
That I believe is the psychology of the mainstream muslim community. These people are like wolf packs if you show any remorse whatsoever they swarm and pounce. We have to show absolute dominance, not hearts and minds because their hearts and minds will change when the Jihadists start bombing again.
Picture of the Cockaroach?
Likewise — I prefer my enemy dead.. Very dead....confirmed dead....without question dead.....as quickly as possible...
Not a bad starting point for our lyricists and Light Verse Brigade.
Exactly why allowing the enemy to achieve "prisoner status" should be very carefully avoided - unless there is a SPECIFIC person and purpose to grant "prisoner status"...
We're there to destroy the enemy -- not to incarcerate him.
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