Sunday - January 16, 2005

Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth

Elan Journo and Dr. Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute have finally vocalized something that has been preying on my mind since the war in Iraq started. We’re fighting the right war but doing it in the wrong way.

Fighting a compassionate war is immoral; it is costing the lives of American soldiers in Iraq and emboldening our enemies throughout the Islamic world.

The horrific suicide bombing in December of a U.S. mess tent near Mosul and the assassination on Jan. 10 of the deputy chief of Baghdad police--the second Iraqi official murdered in five days--are further indications that the war in Iraq is worsening. Things are going badly not because, as some claim, the United States is arrogant and lacking in humility--but because it is self-effacing and compassionate.

The Bush Administration’s war in Iraq embraces compassion instead of the rational goal of victory. Such an immoral approach to war wantonly sacrifices the lives of soldiers and emboldens our enemies throughout the Middle East to mount further attacks against us.

Regardless of whether the Iraqi dictatorship should have been our initial target in the war against totalitarian Islam, when in the nation’s defense a President sends troops to war, morally he must resolve to soundly defeat the enemy while safeguarding our forces and citizens. But America’s attention has been diverted to rebuilding Iraqi hospitals, schools, roads and sewers, and on currying favor with the locals (some U.S. soldiers were even ordered to grow moustaches in token of their respect for Iraqi culture, others are now given cultural sensitivity courses before arriving in Iraq). Since the war began, Islamic militants and Saddam loyalists have carried out random abductions, devastating ambushes, and catastrophic bombings throughout the country. That attacks on U.S. forces (including those engaged in reconstruction efforts) have gone unpunished has emboldened the enemy.

Forgive me for saying so but it is past time to take the gloves off. Let the military start having public executions (and public torture of “insurgents” involving razor blades, alcohol, hot coals, dildos .... use your imagination). If another hot spot like Fallujah pops up, bomb the fuck out of it until there is no stone left standing. Tell Syria and Iran that the next ignorant fucking suicide bomber that crosses their border with Iraq bent on destruction will result in a “nucular” bomb being shoved down their throats (or up their ass - choose your orifice carefully). Teheran and Damascus will be made to glow in the dark for thousands of years. Unleash the Marines ... give them a standing order: if anyone even looks at you sideways blow their ass away. Allah can sort them out later.

General Grant didn’t win the Civil War by building hospitals and railroads. He won it by killing the enemy. General Pershing didn’t run the Germans out of France by being nice and offering to build sewers and highways in Germany. He won it by kicking the hun all the way back across the Meuse River. General Patton .... same story, thirty years later. Kill the bad guys and come home. That’s the American Way, by God!

What the fuck has happened to us, America? We throw our troops in harms way and tell them to “play nice”? Fuck that shit! War is about one thing: killing the enemy .. dead. If I’m a soldier in combat, I don’t give a rat’s ass what the enemy thinks of me. I just want the fucker to stop breathing! And if the Iraqis won’t stand up and defend themselves by helping us then they can all go to hell too. The pussies at the State Department can take their silly little mustaches and “sensitivity training” and shove it up their ass! Case closed!

Posted by The Skipper     on 01/16/2005 at 10:40 PM   
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