Posted on 11/18/2015 9:19:00 PM PST by Titus-Maximus
Honoring Paris’s dead and wounded is now being done with crocodile tears, candles, moments of silence, crowds of strangers holding hands, pledges of solidarity, the endless, pro forma singing of national anthems, and bouquets of followers mounded up as colorful, if wilting, temples to the dead.
None of this nonsense honors anyone, it is simply another meaningless iteration of the made-for-TV, post-Islamist-attack “Festival of the Deadâ€, an event to which Westerners seem to be intensely attached and are now institutionalizing. After all, it’s a chance to get outdoors, walk a bit, and mingle with other self-professed and mourning lovers of humanity. It is, in fact, all hogwash. It allows Western people to feel they have done something to contribute to victory over the enemy when in fact they have done less to honor the dead and destroy their killers than their national governments — and that truly is quite an underachievement.
But there is a time-honored and effective way to honor the Paris dead, as well as the U.S. and Western soldiers whose lives and limbs have been wasted since 2001 by national leaders who did not intend to win. If the United States and the West really do not want to do the smartest thing and encourage a Sunni-Shia sectarian war, then it has the near-term option of destroying all those facilities in Syria and Iraq that are essential to the Islamic State’s effort to build a state or, in their words, rebuild the Caliphate.
Currently, IS is in possession of:
–Highways and bridges –Portions of a railway system –Fleets of tanker trucks, construction vehicles and machinery, and farming equipment –Cell phone tower networks and overhead power lines –Improved waterways and irrigation canals/systems –Potable water and urban sanitation systems –Hydroelectric dams and reservoirs –Airfields –Grain silos –Mills for processing wheat and other grains –Facilities for mining minerals –Oil fields, wells, and refineries –Gas fields, wells, and distribution systems –Pipelines for fuel, gas, and water –Factories, government buildings, warehouses, and military bases –Farmland that is growing crops –Hospitals –Universities –Police stations, military barracks, office buildings, and hotels that are used to store arms and house fighters
Each of these things, needless to say, is part of the IS military effort. They are even more important, however, to its effort to build a state, fund an economy, attract foreign volunteers, and feed, employ, and care for a population. They all are also wonderfully visible, cannot be readily moved or hidden, and are just the kind of targets that Western air forces can annihilate in an air campaign of relatively short duration. For the first time since 1996, the Islamists have acquired a large and valuable set of physical assets that they cannot afford to lose, and they are assets that are perfectly suited to the West’s conventional military forces and so will give Western militaries a respite from the folly of trying to defeat IS by killing their fighters one or two at a time.
He’s at least contributing some positive input.
in order to defeat an enemy all out war needs to be waged. that would include allowing the defending population to demonize the enemy ( it would have to reach such a point that an average soccer mom would scream obscenities at an innocent Islam woman standing on the corner waiting for a bus ).
they would have to be attacked mercilessly with overkill weapons and massive collateral damage over and over until they become weary of being pummeled
that will NEVER happen, at least not until they nuke some major cities
I’m in complete agreement about these post-Islamic slaughter global “festivals of the dead”. What an emotive, self-absorbed way to do absolutely nothing worthwhile about the actual problem. Create a feel good moment and move on until the next bloodbath. I’d rather see the infidels unite against the enemy and kick butt. Mercilessly. Ruthlessly. Until the muzzies are back in their little ghetto sand worlds where they belong.
I agree. Now that we end the public grieving for the innocents needlessly slaughtered, lets reflect on what has led to this,
I see all of these American businesses lowering our flag to the status of what is reserved for our heroes. One American was killed out of the 127, and still counting, in a nation that has since 1966 ridiculed us to no end. How many of those lost also held the opinion of what we call American Exceptionalism, as did their leftist government that just got bitch slapped?
Their governments were warned time and again to not unconditionally accept the mongrel hoards into their lands but called us all kinds of names and implied they were more compassionate and intellectually superior to knuckle dragging Americans. It has gone on for so long that even the liberals in this country, along with the squishy middle, are accepting the premise because they have no stomach for being called names.
So, they created the problem, and now we are to feel sorry for them? Grieve for the innocent lives lost but NOT for the bastards who laid the bed for it to happen.
I will not lower my dignity to those who, as a whole, ridicule my country while they kill their society. We can’t fix it for them anymore.
Fool me once, shame on you (WWI)
Fool me twice, shame on me (WWII)
Fool me thrice, ain’t no friggin way!
Makes you wonder why they bomb the oil trucks...moving targets and leave the STATIONARY oil wells and refineries standing to pump more oil. But then you find out who the oil trucks are supplying...Iran and Russia. And our pussy POTUS doesn’t want to upset them. He literally is either afraid of them or in bed with them. Rush is right, Obama is dangerous.
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