TO WIN A WAR

By de Andréa

To win or not to win, that is the question???

Technically the U.S. has not won a war since the Second World War. How is it, that the most powerful country in the world both economically and militarily, can no longer win a war? Answer, because we are afraid to win. Every war, that the U.S. has been involved in since the 1940’s has been a defensive/political war, as opposed to an offensive war to win. All because it is has become politically incorrect to actually win a war, it is bullysh, and aggressive, intimidating, destructive, an ugly Man’s Thing, and it is definitely not a warm a friendly way to encourage the concept of all getting along. We should all go hug an endangered weed and smoke a few funny cigaretts together, possibly enroll in an anger management class instead.

America has been feminized; and emasculated; it has become afraid of offending its neighbors. So far our government has no intention of winning this war in Iraq or Afghanistan. War has become a political endeavor rather than a military one; it has gone from a military blitz to political persuasion. One will not win wars by trying to convince the enemy the error of its ways. Moreover, while we are trying to get in touch with our feminine side and trying to nurture and encourage group hugs with our warm fuzzy enemy, they will bleed us the death. “War my friends, is not an endeavor to win a popularity contest or even make friends, it is in fact, an extreme and overwhelming exercise of survival.” Amen-de Andréa.

Our Government leadership would do well by reading a well known book written over 2400 years ago in about the year 500 BC by a Chinese warrior/author and philosopher Sun Tzu, called the Art of War. (Reference a previous article by de Andréa March 6, 2006 titled The Art of War) It teaches the practical and philosophical purpose of war. Basically the only purpose of war is to win, if one does not have the purpose to win, then one has no business going to war, because one has no purpose. And with out purpose one will lose, such as in the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, and in all other minor wars that the U.S. has been involved in since WW II.

Will the Iraq war go the same way as the Korean or Vietnam War? Yes, because we have no purpose to win. If the purpose is to persuade, and as mentioned earlier trying to convince a Nation as in this case, the Nation of Islam, the error of their ways, we will not win this war. Moreover, specifically to the Iraqi and the Afghani war, to attempt to persuade a people to become a Democracy whose Religion is a Totalitarian Ideology supported by Religious Law that demands a Religious conversion to Islam or death to everyone, a murderous Theocracy; is an act of futility. We would be asking them to give up their Religion and replace it with a new form of government that is completely foreign to their historical spiritual ideology. We are certain to lose the fight for Democracy for that specific reason alone; one cannot turn Satan into a warm fuzzy purring kitty just because one wants to.

In all of history, real peace has never come by negotiation or political persuasion or by sociological group hugs with the enemy. Real Lasting Peace has only ever come through war and because somebody wins and somebody loses, moreover, then the winner can force his will on the loser, and then in a generation or two they may buy into a new form of government, one may call it whatever one likes, it is, what it is. This by the way is exactly what happened in Germany and in Japan, for example we beat the Japanese into submission, and then General Mac Arthur took over as Supreme Dictator of Japan until the people were ready for a new way of life, and look at them now. [Need more be said about that?]

Because the military has developed and adopted more rules that direct how not to engage the enemy than rules of how to engage the enemy, it shows that we have no intention of winning this war. In reading some of the military bloggs written by solders in Iraq, one can see this immediately. Many talk about going on patrol, only it is not patrol as one has been taught in Combat School, it is called presence patrol. It has no mission except to provide a presence, it is like an attempt to persuade the enemy to give one a hug along side of the road. These are the type of patrols that get bombed everyday, and get a lot of GI’s killed. It is a waste of human lives because it accomplishes nothing.

The American people, like in the Vietnam War will not be content to be sanguineted to death for ever. And like in Vietnam the people will eventually lose their will to fight this war. I believe the people have the will to win this war, but no one can be very interested in being bled to death. Moreover prosecuting our own solders for killing the enemy is sort of a morale buster to say the least. (Check a previous article by de Andréa titled the Pendleton 8).

If our Government was less concerned about being politically correct and instead just wanted to win this war, what would they do differently? First, it would be an offensive war, if one remembers; it sort of started that way. But when we overwhelmingly gained semi control of the country we seemed to have lost our will to aggressively finish winning the war and taking absolute control. I guess the Pentagon just thought the enemy would roll over and give up, well they didn’t; besides, I guess the rest of the world might see us as bullies rather than benevolent. If one wants to be seen as benevolent, one should not go to war but should instead give away ones country; that would be benevolent.

One must ask oneself, how did we win the Second World War? Answer, we intended to win, at all costs, it was a matter of survival. This is why when President Truman found that the country was at a cross road, to win or to lose he used overwhelming odds and brought Japanese Imperialism to its knees, because we intended to win and nothing short of winning was going to be acceptable.

To win this war we must get back to how we started, let defence take a back seat, and once again become offensive. The rest of the world might not see us as benevolent but the American people will support it because we will win this war. Like in football, one must certainly have a good defence; however, it is the offensive team that wins the game.

For example, in Fallujah, we fought the war on the enemies’ terms, one terrorist at a time; it is called urban warfare, door to door, this is the most dangerous type of warfare, we lost a bunch of our solders, and accomplished almost nothing. According to our intelligence Fallujah was and still is a center of terrorism, a place for the enemy to go to and from, and to re-arm.

We should have carpet bombed Fallujah until there was not a terrorist in site to hug. We would have accomplished a plethora of objectives. First, we would have stunned the enemy, really knocked them off balance. Second, we would have destroyed all the terrorists in Fallujah and their ability to use it as a stronghold. Third, we would not have lost any of our solders. Then before the world has a chance to get politically correct and start calling us bullies and asking why can’t we just all get along, we hit them again and again and before the enemy can take a breath, we hit them again. Military intelligence has a whole list of Al Qaida and other terrorist strongholds in Iraq.

At the same time we should fly sorties along the borders, (we should get serious about our own borders as well) if anyone is seen crossing the border anywhere but a guarded border crossing, we take them out. If a terrorist can’t get in, and we destroy all the terrorist strongholds in Iraq with no let-up, this may just encourage any stragglers to give it up, at least temporarily. If it doesn’t, we go to the next step; most importantly we never let up until we win, period. The only element of humanity that Islam respects is the demonstration of overwhelming power.

Yes some so-called innocent people will be killed. Like I said if one wants to be benevolent do not go to war, instead we should give away our country. Dropping not one, but two atomic bombs on Japan wasn’t very benevolent and it killed a lot of so-called innocent people, but it ended the war, and most importantly we won. This; is the purpose of war.

Then we should cut Iraq up into three states, Kurdistan, Sunnistan, and Shiitestan. Create a Central Government with a warm fuzzy benevolent dictator and three State Governments and then leave. And bomb Iran, Pakistan, Sirya , and Sudan back into the “Stone Age” where we, and they, feel more comfortable, this might just discourage Islam for another thousand years or so.

THE BOTTOM LINE: I might sound like an arm chair tough guy, that doesn’t care about human life. But I am not! I am a realest and I do care about all human life especially mine and my family and other American lives, more importantly I understand the Muslim mind and spirit. I detest war, and would choose to stay out of it if we could. But if we commit ourselves to war we have an obligation to win, and, in the quickest way possible, using everything we have at our deposal, and with the least American lives lost. In answer to the question, to win or not to win? We must decide to win these wars in Iraq and Afghanistan now before it is too late, or otherwise while we are busy trying to convince our warm fuzzy enemy to try to get along or make good little Christian Americans out of them, Iran and Pakistan will attack Israel and North Korea will attack South Korea and Japan and anybody else they think they can reach.

Remember the words of General George Patton? “The idea is, that we get the enemy to die for his country.”

The magnanimous concept that everyone including Islam should or wants to be free is both noble and ignorant. In the case of Islam, freedom is the most distant thing from their warm fuzzy deceptive Muslim minds. In spite of surface appearances, Islam is not interested in freedom, Democracy, rights, secular laws, choice, or hugging Americans; they are only interested in the domination of our world .

Just a last minute side note submitted by a subscriber who shall be known as Mr. Q:

Just prior to WW l, General Black Jack Pershing while in the Philippines, Captured 50 Muslim terrorists after several attacks on U.S. forces there. He tied them to posts for execution. He had his men bring two pigs and slaughtered them in front of the now horrified terrorists. Muslims detest pork because they believe pigs are filthy animals. Most of them simply refuse to touch it, nor any of the by-products. To them, eating or touching a pig, its meat, its blood etc., it is to be instantly barred from paradise (and those virgins) and doomed to hell. The solders then soaked their bullets in pig’s blood, and proceeded to execute 49 of the terrorists by firing squad. The solders then dug a hole, dumped in the terrorists, and covered them with pig blood, entrails, etc. Then they let the 50th man go. And for the next forty two-years, there was not a single Muslim terrorist attack, anywhere in the world.

Maybe it is time for this segment of history to repeat itself, maybe in Iraq? The question is where are we going to find another Black Jack Pershing or anyone with the guts to do what ever it may require to win this war???

de Andréa