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William Sherman said that war is cruelty, that there can be no way to refine it, and that the crueler it is the sooner it is over, and as a corollary, the fewer are the casualties.
- I Only Hope We Understand Foreign Elections More Than They Understand Ours
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- Great Moments In The History Of Islamic Man/boy Love
ANOTHER REASON WE SHOULD HAVE JUST NUKED TORA BORA IN 2001 AND BEEN DONE WITH IT: BACHA BAZFrom the Astute Bloggers: For centuries, Afghan men have taken boys, roughly 9 to 15 years old, as lovers. Some research suggests that half the Pashtun tribal...
- What Is Victory In Afpak? Why Didn't Obama Define That 1st?
Early in WW2 FDR delineated what victory was. Unconditional surrender. We have failed to do this since. The result is: Korea - a war which is in a truce state since neither side would give in and no result on the battlefield which dictated...
- Main Entry: Reckoning - A Settling Of Accounts
As any western movie aficionado, and therefore a connoisseur of that most western of events, the OK Corral can tell you, according to Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp never sought revenge, only a reckoning. The arabs I know have looked...
- 'neoconservative' Foreign Policy And Sept 17th 1862
American casualties in Iraq over 4 years are identical to those on Sept 17th 1862, on THAT ONE DAY, and yet we cannot sustain them.On Sept 17th 1862, after repeated numerous significant lost battles, destroyed campaigns, and inept planning, execution,...
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The Crueler it is, the sooner it is over....should we have nuked instead of a 10 years and unlimited effort...
It's 10 years on and no REAL OBJECTIVE end in sight.
Suppose we had simply erased, Kandahar, Jalalabad, Kabul, Tora Bora etc, hours after Mullah Omar refused to turn Bin Laden over. Suppose 30-50 targets had been wacked by 100 kilotons each.
Certainly American casualties would have been nearly or completely non existent.
We may had avoided invading Iraq, for the lessons to the world would have been salutary.
Many would have condemned us, but in the end would less people be dead, and a more final reckoning in our favor be realized?
- I Only Hope We Understand Foreign Elections More Than They Understand Ours
From Germany, the Berliner Zeitung: Radicalism and lack of intelligent content dominate the political debate in the U.S. The fact that Donald Trump lost the first important testing of Republican waters is therefore great news. The good news to come from...
- Great Moments In The History Of Islamic Man/boy Love
ANOTHER REASON WE SHOULD HAVE JUST NUKED TORA BORA IN 2001 AND BEEN DONE WITH IT: BACHA BAZFrom the Astute Bloggers: For centuries, Afghan men have taken boys, roughly 9 to 15 years old, as lovers. Some research suggests that half the Pashtun tribal...
- What Is Victory In Afpak? Why Didn't Obama Define That 1st?
Early in WW2 FDR delineated what victory was. Unconditional surrender. We have failed to do this since. The result is: Korea - a war which is in a truce state since neither side would give in and no result on the battlefield which dictated...
- Main Entry: Reckoning - A Settling Of Accounts
As any western movie aficionado, and therefore a connoisseur of that most western of events, the OK Corral can tell you, according to Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp never sought revenge, only a reckoning. The arabs I know have looked...
- 'neoconservative' Foreign Policy And Sept 17th 1862
American casualties in Iraq over 4 years are identical to those on Sept 17th 1862, on THAT ONE DAY, and yet we cannot sustain them.On Sept 17th 1862, after repeated numerous significant lost battles, destroyed campaigns, and inept planning, execution,...