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Extreme Anxiety ‐ Or How to Negotiate With Hostage-Holding Terrorists |
2016-09-01 |
[American Spectator] An excerpt from Daniel Wattenberg's new nonfiction novella, Decatur's Wake: The Fateful Rivalry Behind the Lightning Defeat of Barbary Terror, available as a Kindle Single from Amazon.Within five days of his arrival in the Mediterranean in June 1815 in command of a squadron of ten ships, Commodore Stephen Decatur had captured two Algerine warships, including her flagship Meshuda, and killed the commander of the enemy fleet.Alleged quote from a WWII veteran overhearing someone say that `You can't bomb an ideology." "The hell you can't. Because we did it. These Muslims are no different than the Imperial Japanese. They had their suicide bombers too, and we stopped them. What it takes is the resolve and will to use a level of brutality and violence that your generations can't stomach. And until you can, this shit won't stop. It took us on the beaches with bullets, clearing out caves with flame throwers, and men like LeMay burning down their cities, killing people by the tens of thousands. And then it took two atom bombs on top of it. But if that was what it took to win we were willing to do it. "Until you are willing to do the same...well I hope you enjoy this shi*, because it ain't going to stop." |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#5 My assessment is the Muslim world's desire to fight will mostly end once the West starts acting like the strong horse again instead of kow-towing to everyone as we've been doing lately. When that happens you'll see a lot more Muslim-on-muslim attacks again. |
Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-09-01 15:38 |
#4 Not necessarily Dave, they hate each other well enough. Wet line, keep the tumbleweeds from blowing through, hit the spot fires, back burn when necessary. Problem is, those mastheads are telling us to enjoy the wildfire as it throws embers across the city. To paraphrase This Kind of War author Fehrenbach, The lesson of 9/11 is that it happened. |
Posted by: swksvolFF 2016-09-01 10:48 |
#3 You forgot to mention Operation Starvation Mr. B. |
Posted by: Shipman 2016-09-01 10:13 |
#2 The quote from that WWII veteran is spot-on, although I would that to render the Islamic world non-toxic is going to require doing a LOT more than it took to vanquish the Japanese Empire or the Nazis. My assessment after the 9/11/2001 attacks is that like it or not, this will end up being nothing less than a war of extermination. |
Posted by: Dave D. 2016-09-01 09:55 |
#1 Extreme Anxiety ‐ Or How to Negotiate With Hostage-Holding Terrorists If you don't cut off my head, I'll tell you the names of American journalists and reporters working for the CIA. |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-09-01 09:33 |