Posted on 08/24/2006 7:32:47 AM PDT by tang0r
This "War on Terror" is not one with clear objectives, such as "if we take this town and this bridge, we will have accomplished our objective." Today's complex battles are conducted with precision weapons with the accuracy of a laser to destroy cancer and based on detailed intelligence gathering. There is no longer the need to blow up an entire city when only a handful of buildings harbor the enemy.
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"This "War on Terror" is not one with clear objectives,...."
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COUNTEROFFENSIVE TO ISLAMIC JIHAD
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COUNTEROFFENSIVE TO ISLAMIC JIHAD
COUNTEROFFENSIVE TO ISLAMIC JIHAD
"War on Terror" is just plain wrong, misleading,and inadequate in many ways!
We need to use more technology (guided missiles, bombs, etc.) and much less diplomacy when dealing with islamists.
Save diplomacy for people who don't cherish the thought of their own deaths.
The article confuses "Wars" and "battles" as the same which is not a reasonable position but the summary bothers me most in this embracing our allies clap. When have we had allies that we could, or would be our equal allies?
A nation has to do what a nation has to do to survive and the hell with embracing anying except killing your enemy.
This approach may well produce never-ending war. "There is no longer the need to blow up an entire city when only a handful of buildings harbor the enemy."
Sure it is. If we eliminate Islam from the face of the planet, we will have accomplished our objective.
Unfortunately we will ultimately have to blow up entire cities and at least one entire country if we are going to win the Islamic War. The Mohammedans have to suffer a very visible very spectacular defeat, something akin to obliteration, to convince them that Allah does not will them to prevail in this generation. All the surgical precision in the world just convinces them they are on the right path because Allah is keepng the cities and most of the population from destruction.
We are ingaged in The Islamic War. That is what it is.
Exactly my thoughts.
Firstly, the US is not "blowing up the entire city", and has not in the most recent conflicts ever since the push towards tactical missle and precision bombing strikes.
The enemy knows that we along with Israel try to target precisely, which is why groups like Hezbollah and Al-Qaeda specifically launch rockets, plan, and hideout from civilian homes.
All of the whining by the international community about civilian deaths due to precision strikes, however regrettable they are, is empty rhetoric when one considers what our true capabilities are.
Plain and simple, we "could" fire up those good ol' B-52s and carpet bomb cities to target enemies, but we do not, because for all of the neo-communist and jihadi whining, they know deep down that if we wished, we could obliterate whole societies and countries in our zeal to target terrorists.
There is NOT an everlasting fount of islamic radicals being born who will grow up to hate. Cultures have been forced to change their views through force from other cultures plenty of times throughout world history.
Our benevolence is both our greatest strength and our greatest weakness.
Yes we will end up unsheathing the sword one of these days. Until a few islamic cities are annihilated they won't understand that they must end their belligerence.
I propose making a well published list of Islamic cities. Publish a warning, in all islamic media, that for each terrorist strike (attempted or successful) we will torch one of those cities, chosen at random.
I believe that should put a dent in terrorist activity very quickly.
Don't choose them at random. Wipe out the home villages of major terrorist leaders.
Random is to force the masses to turn them in. If you live in one of those, and you see a wanted terrorist, I think you'd have a good reason to call that in.
The idea is not revenge, but deterrence, and denial of sanctuary.
This approach may well produce never-ending war. "There is no longer the need to blow up an entire city when only a handful of buildings harbor the enemy."
And we are thankful that our fathers and grandfathers had more sense than to attemp this half-assed appoach with Germany and Japan or we would still be fighting.
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But we can definitely still blow up the entire city. Great to have a range of options.
Next time, the ommunication satellites should go first. Let the "journalists" file their reports by carrier pidgeons. NGO's, too.
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