gardenweasel said:
the reason we were so unprepared for this wave of islamist terrorism, not just militarily but psychologically, is sheer disbelief..... it contradicts our notions of progress....any civilized society`s notion of progress...`
the sheer savagery of blatant human slaughter by zarqawi or daniel pearl's beheaders, is a return to a primitiveness that we in the west had assumed a progressive history had left behind......
we were dead wrong.....we`d better get with the program....and stop doing business as usual with enemies masquerading as allies...
This is all very true!
This makes a ton of sense to me, but you can't get all "eye for an eye" with these fvcks.
A couple things on this..........
1. I've been told, and I believe, the GI's get their shots in out of the view of prying eyes :yup
2. You can't go all out animal with these complete pieces of garbage. Very true, it's all they understand or appreciate. ANY and ALL acts that the US or it's allies commit that are even remotely similar to what is being committed against the innocent by these ass holes will BE USED AGAINST THE US for YEARS. I think it's called "violence begets violence". They will be carving somebody else up 8,000 miles away to "show us" for something we did.
3. If there's any hope for the countries of the rest of the region to turn to more civil governmental systems (whenever that is) as lame as this is to say, we have BE THE BIGGER MAN.
4. You start letting GI's get crazy, it could get extremely ugly. Woman and children ugly. Whatever that incident in Nam, were they wiped out a town.
5. We have our own version of total nasty. 500 lb bombs dropped or launched. Totally F'n nasty.
6. Let us remember, the kill ratio, whatever it is, must be EXTREMELY in our favor. We need to find solace in that somehow. Not any joy over death, but something from our army's effectiveness.
7. We HAVE to hold our nose and try and keep Mother Russia (or whatever it is now) close to us as possible. They are STILL a world power. They are STILL nuclear ready. They can STILL turn the tide in any world situation (against us) by supplying a side.
8. BTW .......if I was there, I couldn't hold back. Anything I've said above wouldn't matter a bit to "getting some payback". :chairshot