Love this guy but he’s wrong here. This is Iwo Jima and the goal should be to exterminate every single ISIS member... don’t stop until there are only 5 or 6 left hiding in caves. Others in the world need to see this as an object lesson.“The entire purpose of military action against ISIS is to persuade them to stop, not to kill every single one of them. “
"War is the continuation of politics by other means.” - ClausewitzFor example, Harry Reid proclaiming, “This war is lost.” That was politics with the obvious implication of causing the war to be lost. I was frustrated when Reid’s opponent did not dramatize that by challenging Reid to say of his own re-election, “This campaign is lost.”Obviously Reid would have submitted to a lashing before saying that publicly.
Von Clausewitz got it backwards, every democrat knows politics is the continuation of war by other means.