Dirty Dozen? How About a Dirty Thousand???

(Today, June 14th, is Flag Day in the US. We, here at IoF, encourage you to fly your flag today.

Now, today's post:

Americans have become such pantywaists that we will never win, outright, another war with anyone… who is willing to fight dirty!!! That’s a fact! It’s one I’m ashamed of, but it IS a fact nonetheless!

As an example, the American press is so very concerned to learn whether our troops "beat up" on Zarqawi before he died. Well, folks, I gotta tell you… I sincerely hope they beat the snot out of him! Before, and after, he was dead!

Trying to fight a PC war is getting American troops killed, needlessly. Keeping our troops on a leash is also getting them killed needlessly. If we are not going to nuke the place, as I proposed from day one, then turn our troops loose to clean that snake pit out!

I know! I know! It ain’t gonna happen! So, I propose that the Commander-in-Chief issue orders to create a battalion of special “Special” forces. These men would be recruited from America prisons, preferable those convicted of murder and crimes involving dastardly deeds.

As soon as the group is collected, take them off shore, never to return to America. Give them a few months of training, how to make bombs, and how to use a sniper’s rifle, how to poison an entire city’s water supply, how to make, and set off, dirty bombs, and give them training in the finer arts of war such as rape and pillage.

Finally, the President would give each man a "Presidential Pardon" for the crimes he might commit. And... they must understand they will never be able to return to the shores of the United States, but they will be free to go anywhere else in the world they wish … after their missions are successfully completed.

Then transport them to trouble spots like Iraq, Iran, Somalia, wherever, and parachute them in... and turn them loose. Let them wreak havoc on that country. As the insurgency grows more violent, the “special” troops would grow even more violent, staying one level ahead, of the enemy, in violence... against civilians and soldiers alike. Wear the enemy down psychologically.

As the ranks of these special “Special” forces deplete we could continually replenish them from the ranks of our prison system.

Of course, I know this isn’t going to happen. But, if we don’t come to understand that not a single war in the history of the entire world has been won by being nice, then we are going to stay "at war" and get thousands of Americans killed… for nothing!

The United States Army, under General US Grant, invented "Total War". They applied it to the South by sending Bill Sherman through my beloved South burning, pillaging, destroying, stealing, and hanging Southerners… including my own ancestors. That "total war" was waged against the South to break the will of the people to resist. You must remember that Lee surrendered only the Army at Appomattox, not the civilians of the South.

The US was losing that war… until they got serious about winning. The US has the same problem today.

There is no substitute for victory.

It’s sorta like putting a highly trained football team on the field and telling them they are expected to win the game but they are not to harm the opposing team in any way. If you have ever played sports you know that will insure defeat.

That, Dear Reader, is what we have in Iraq. We have a team, which is not being allowed to play, all out, to win.

At the same time, the enemy knows that the dirtier they get, the more savage they are at making war, the more Americans are going to want to bring their troops home! That’s what I meant about Americans being pantywaists! We must be willing to meet fire with fire by matching their savagery. Until we do, this war will drag on and on.

Suck it up America, and do what ever is necessary to WIN… and THEN bring our troops home!

Longstreet