Posted by: James A, Sweeney
Comment: #2
Tue Dec 2, 2008 5:19 AM
Sir;....Clausewitz was right, and Ho Chi Minh was right, and at least in part you are wrong... It is never about victory or defeat, it is always about the political solution... Don't think there was not violence toward the Muslims, or against the Vietnamese before each responded with violence... Yet, if we know that the political solution is what is behind the violence; then that should always be the focus of our efforts... To that end, being there is perhaps the worst possible situation to have for ourselves, and for the prospects of a solution... Think of what Frederick the Great said about holding everywhere, and holding nowhere.... Think of what Clausewitz said about attacking fixed positions... Think with your own head about the value of any army tied down.... To go to places like Iraq which was not in the least necessary, since we could have forced a change of leaders with a serious military demonstration...To try to prop up a government of our choice that would then be a drain on our resources for an exchange of oil is crazy... It is an invitation to continued violence.... The job of an army is to fight, or to prepare to fight...Mobility is the essence of tactics, and we have given up mobility to force a political situation that cannot possibly be lasting...We should have went in, and come out... Invasion is what we were made for... The cost of invasion is steep.. The cost of staying is ruinous.. And ditto for Afghanistan... We cannot fight their war... WE have to let them form up if we are going to beat them, and the only way they will form up is to get out, and make them feel they have driven us out... To stay there invites stalemate and bleeding, and spreads the hard feeling and hatred far and wide... .And they hit us, the West, where we ain't, soft targets... Considering that democracy has always been defensive as a form of social organization, we should wall them off, isolate them, and instead of propping up leaders as corrupt as they are powerless, -go in, beat the crap out of them, get out, and ask them if they want some more... To stay is stupid because it prolonges the conflict and puts off the political solution... It is non sense.. You can't beat a people...Genocide is illegal... Islam is indomitable... Look at what your terror does??? It take a tremendous energy to keep all on their guard... War is worse, in that it keeps everyone on edge, and divides everyone's attention... If you are not prepared to beat them all to death, or find some other way to kill them all, then they must be quarantined...And never give up on the political solution... Some one should talk to them... Maybe they are republicans...Even if they are not, there is not a single price tag on that end of the world...Those people make deals as a course of life... We can do the same... Thanks...Sweeney
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