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| Is the Western Way of War Dead? |
| 2006-09-08 |
| Not yet, but it may soon be irrelevant. The way I look at it, we are one election away from playing cowboys and muslims. Conquer, expel, exploit, colonize. Repeat. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #4 The greatest single tactic America's Secular- and God-based Socialist Totalitarian enemies can be summed up as "You will give us our power or we'll take you and everybody, Sun + Earth, wid us to hell". IOW, BEING ALLOWED TO LIVE i.e. LIFE; versus BEING FORCIBLY DESTROYED WID EVERYBODY ELSE. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-09-08 20:38 |
| #3 I suspect that Iran is about to be crushed. Charles Johnson (LGF) and others reflect betrayal in the admission of a Visa to Ayatowelhead Khatami. I believe that the White House expects that the murderer will outrage Americans, and he already has. Outrage is the fuel of war. Lock, load and release. When the murderer mouths off at the National Cathedral, Americans will remember President Bush's Cathedral speech in which he threatened to destroy the country's enemy at the "hour of our chosing." And the sooner the better. |
| Posted by: Snease Shaiting3550 2006-09-08 14:11 |
| #2 What looks like “quagmire” now may soon, in retrospect, and in later acknowledgment of the ambition of the undertaking, seem both noble and successful. Such an historical assessment is also likely when we consider that the U.S. military has killed thousands of terrorists abroad, and has severely disrupted al Qaeda — while we have suffered no repeat of September 11 here at home. I have often thought this very thing... the critics of the WOT often forget that changing history and seeing fruit bearing rewards in any type of government change is often measured in decades not years... Blackvenom-2001 |
| Posted by: Blackvenom-2001 2006-09-08 13:58 |
| #1 We haven't tried it yet. When the middle east looks like Berlin in 1945, then I'll believe it. Hanson states: "We may indeed witness eventually the end of the primacy of the Western way of war. Yet that demotion will not be due to the Islamic way of war, but rather to the specter of a thermonuclear exchange with paradise-loving enemies, immune to notions of deterrence — an awful situation in which conventional Western military advantage is reduced to nothing." This is similar to what Wrechard of Belmont Club has been saying; if we loose this war now, ther will be another. We won't loose the next one, but millions will die. |
| Posted by: Mark E. 2006-09-08 12:09 |