T. Belman. This is in contrast to this OBAMA INC: WE WON’T “STOOP” TO BOMBING ISIS CITIES
“We won’t stoop to actually winning wars”
By Lt Col (ret’d) Ralph Peters, NYPost
[..] What can be done? The answer is easy to mouth — and unwelcome to those who conduct foreign policy by platitudes (such as “there’s no military solution”). The base line is that you can’t win by playing defense. You must take the war to the enemy — without restraint. If you’re not determined to win at any cost, you’ll lose.
Our military has the resources to shatter ISIS, but political correctness has penetrated so deep into the Pentagon that, even should a president issue the one-word order, “Win!,” our initial actions would be cautious and halting. We’ve bred a generation of military leaders afraid of being prosecuted by their own government for the kind of errors inevitable in wartime. Instead of “leaning forward in the foxhole,” our leaders lean on lawyers.
If lawyers had had to approve our World War II target lists, we couldn’t have won. War is never clean or easy, and the strictures imposed on our military today just protect our enemies. Collateral damage and civilian casualties are part of combat and always will be. The most humane approach is to pile on fast and win decisively — which results in far less suffering than the sort of protracted agony we see in Syria.
The generals who won World War II would start by leveling Raqqa, the ISIS caliphate’s capital. Civilians would die, but those remaining in Raqqa have embraced ISIS, as Germans did Hitler. The jihadis must be crushed. Start with their “Berlin.”
Kill ten thousand, save a million.
Unthinkable? Fine. We lose.
And the jihadis? They’ll always have Paris.
Ralph Peters is Fox News strategic analyst and a retired Army officer.
America has been feminized beyond any hope of exuding battlefield power. It must have others to agree with any action it proposes and then eagerly assures it cannot persist with its knitting to complete the task, properly. At base, it has thrown off all the virtues that made it great. So did Rome.
Obama has now sunk so low that he is morally inferior to Vladimir The Terrible, a level of ignominy previously considered to be unattainable. When the vigilance in combating world evil is left to the Russkys, you know that American voters royally screwed up (twice no less).
Applies to Israeli Oslo conditioned generals and their civilian “leads” as well.
Soldiers are used to pretend to make war while getting killed. The people must forcefully prevent any further such actions by the disgraces in staff positions.
The “cease fire” and rubber bullet generals MUST go.
Lt, Col Peters is 100% correct.