weve also spent a lot of treasure, and lost opportunities trying to protect our own from injury/death, often at tactical/strategic expebse...
blackhawk down' and benghazi showed the courage and sacrifice that our warriors posses to git-r-done...
so sure, give em the equipment we can afford, but also unleash em for total war...make our enemies fear us, screw them likin us...at least until they are broken and submissive...hell we didnt even have the willingness to 100% destroy/kill the actual republican guard in the first gulf invasion...
germans and japs are friendly today, and we burned their countries to the ground...f@@k allahbabba and the vamel he humped in on...you wanna smoke em out ??? use FIRE...!!!
You make some good points there. I’m not advocating we give the enemy comfort, as it relates to targets we can identify.
For instance, in Vietnam I think we should have warned the North that unless all hostilities ceased and they returned north of the demilitarized zone by x date, Hanoi would cease to exist. I wouldn’t even have even warned the North that it’s Hanoi government buildings were about to evaporate. And the chance that harbor could have been used again for months after our stikes, I would have pulverized that place so thoroughly, the harbor would have crept inland by a half mile or so.
As for our own Congress, I’d have been tempted to do the same things to it.
Afterward I’d say, this is the war you wanted boys. Welcome. It’s on. Now either surrender or watch your cities go up one by one.
We’re not going to coddle you any longer.
With the government gone in Iraq, it’s not quite as easy to identify the enemy. When we can, I don’t think we should be bashful about erasing homes where the enemy attacked us from.
In the Black Hawk situation, I would have been plenty happy to level the quarter mile in each direction around our men there. You draw the fire, you get the fire. Don’t F with us.
I believe that if we discussed this, you and I would come to a pretty reasoned agreement on what we want, and what we’re willing to accept to achieve it.
I can be a ruthless bastard when I need to be. I will never agree to put our men in harms way, then not do my best to let them defend themselves, or provide any assistance they need in addition to that.
This unloaded gun crap, someone in command at some level should be brought up on charges when that stuff surfaces.
HA-HA :)