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2006-12-15 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by .com 2006-12-15 05:48|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Three cheers for Diana West. As I said on numerous occasions: Muslims will be killing somebody. Let it be each other.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-12-15 06:20|| 2006-12-15 06:20|| Front Page Top

#2 ... that's because neither group dares to reckon with the two greatest obstacles to our efforts in the region: namely, Islam (culturally unsuited to Westernity) and our own politically correct ROE, or rules of engagement (strategically unsuited to victory).

Bing-effing-go!

In other words, it's a disgrace for military brass to talk about the 21st-century struggle with Islam as necessarily being a 50- to 100-year war. Ridiculous. It could be over in two weeks if we cared enough to blast our way off the list of endangered civilizations.

Nice to see someone with the courage to put this in print. Without radical reform of Islam, the tipping point will be reached. Islam's abject refusal to reform itself makes the Muslim holocaust only a matter of time.

If Iran, the jihad-supporting leader of the Shi'ite world, is being "strangled" by Saudi Arabia, the jihad-supporting leader of the Sunni world, isn't that good for the Sunni-and-Shiite-terrorized West?

With the two main sects of Islam preoccupied with an internecine battle of epic proportions, the non-Muslim world gets some breathing room. And we sure could use it to plan for the next round.

Close but no cigar. Nuclear weapons have changed any such notion. We must adopt, at least, a policy of "breaking things". Iran's nuclear program tops the list. Aside from that, it may well be best to simply let our enemies fill the gutters with their own blood. Fuck knows there isn't a more richly deserving bunch of psychotically violent ingrate bastards on the face of this earth.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-12-15 06:45|| 2006-12-15 06:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Exactly: it could be over in two weeks.

Our unwillingness to kill 40,000 in one night of bombing, is, in large part, why the need to arises more often. All this "enlightened, humane" stuff overlooks the fact that mass casualties are the point. By eliminating it, we remove the enemy's disincentive to make war.

So, it appears they'll have to nuke us out of the illusion that wars can be won without really hurting anyone.

Posted by exJAG 2006-12-15 07:56|| 2006-12-15 07:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Exquisitely concise, exJAG. *applause*

Posted by .com 2006-12-15 07:59|| 2006-12-15 07:59|| Front Page Top

#5 I've learned a lot here at Rantburg U. Don't much like it, but if our choices are (1) kill or (2) be killed, well, duh.

Posted by exJAG 2006-12-15 08:21|| 2006-12-15 08:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Lol. That wasn't a snarky comment - you nailed it .000001% of the bandwidth of the usual post.

Posted by .com 2006-12-15 08:27|| 2006-12-15 08:27|| Front Page Top

#7 000001% of the bandwidth of the ~~certain-verbose-fellow-who really-should-get-his-own-blog~~ usual post.

Posted by Pappy 2006-12-15 09:52|| 2006-12-15 09:52|| Front Page Top

#8 I would like to see the Muslims fight themselves to oblivion, however, that would effect oil supplies. Our best bet is to work with the Sunnis against Iran, etc.

Iraq's Kurds are on their own. However, taking Baghdad for example, 80% of its neighborhoods are mixed Sunni-Shiite. Once sect has to dominate.

Posted by Sneaze Shaiting3550 2006-12-15 11:19|| 2006-12-15 11:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Scorpion, tarantula - meet bottle...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2006-12-15 12:04|| 2006-12-15 12:04|| Front Page Top

#10 Let them fight. If it affects the oil supplies the price goes up and we look for alternatives. Eventually those alternatives become economically viable and they have less and less money to fight with. Eventually turning to scimitars and sand in their attempts to conquer the world.

Short term painful, long term priceless.

Posted by rjschwarz 2006-12-15 12:34|| 2006-12-15 12:34|| Front Page Top

#11 Rantburg does provide an extremely efficient education. Someday Fred's archives will be required reading for the better poli sci, comparative anthropology, philosophy of logic, psychology (trollery: expression of neurosis or psychosis?), and several other undergraduate degree programs... and I suspect more than a few dissertation topics as well. And then there are the science bits, military history, comparative religions...

/my fave site, bar none!

Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-15 13:20|| 2006-12-15 13:20|| Front Page Top

#12 Check out this situation map of Baghdad. As you can see, most incidents - and this was prior to the 5 car bomb attack on Sadr City - are occurring in mixed Sunni-Shiite neighborhoods between the 2 Sunni strips. The Mahdi Army appears to be prevailing. If they dominate, then they will go after US held Baghdad Airport.

HREF='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7155/257/1600/baghdad-updates-nov27.7.jpg'

Posted by Sneaze Shaiting3550 2006-12-15 15:14|| 2006-12-15 15:14|| Front Page Top

#13 See SHERMAN AND TOTAL WAR over at WINDSOFCHANGE.net. Sherman > "WAR IS CRUELTY/HELL" > CRUELTY WITH A PURPOSE, NOT WANTON, RECKLESS SLAUGHTER FOR SLAUGHTER'S SAKE -'Ole Sherm would agree that the primary purpose or premise of war is to CAUSE AN ENEMY TO CHANGE HIS MIND AND GIVE UP CONFLICT, NOT WIN A POLITICAL ELECTION.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-12-15 20:20|| 2006-12-15 20:20|| Front Page Top

#14 By Jove, Joe, I think you've got it!

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2006-12-15 20:22|| 2006-12-15 20:22|| Front Page Top

#15 yeow Pappy! LOL

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-12-15 21:16|| 2006-12-15 21:16|| Front Page Top

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