But you see that's what war is. War is to
KILL all the guys on the other side. Not to surgically carve out a person from between stuff. War means make the other
PEOPLE quit because the consequences are too drastic.
I honestly believe that that is what's missing in all this sanitized war crap. Think about it, World War II only ended because the Japanese people wanted to kill the Emperor. You know, after the horrible American bombs fell killing all those innocent people. They (the people) stopped the war, not the bombs!
It took draconian measures to stop the war. I would have had no trouble waking one morning listening to the horrible details of how we took out Baghdad and Saddam and the new peoples representative government was now seeking peace. After all, the President of Iraq declared war for and on behalf of his country...
I wouldn't bomb them into the stone age. That is the metaphoric rhetoric that we need to stop subscribing to. Call it what it is, a nasty one way ticket for one side. The real trouble is that we never try to win, we try to fight with Marcus of Queensbury rules. We wouldn't want to accidently kill people who want to kill us and don't understand that we're really nice. We just need to dialog with them and share our money, and food, and technology, and our successes, and then they'd change their minds. Yea, that's right, we can buy them and their friendship.
Heaven help that we'd be viewed as a combatant with an unfair advantage if we actually fought for real. You know, technology and manpower that overwhelmed the smaller unfriendly warrior.
Think about this. Say we took them at their word when they declared war. Imagine how they would feel if they woke that morning to find that
ALL of their military bases were now giant holes in the ground. After all, it is war. And that would be a simple task with today's technology. The killing of the military would be expected in war by both sides, wouldn't it? You know, that just might be a viable way to win a war!
Purpose? Simple! He defied United Nations resolutions and we got tired of it. I'd have had no trouble with the whole thing had it been presented that way. And we could have said that as an example to all who would doubt the commitment of the United States support against the violations of United Nations sanctions, we are now acting on our own. That's what we were accused of so fine, let's be about the business of the business.
One war, executed properly, would quickly show the world what a real war is and why they don't need to happen. I'm sure this country was looked on as bad for the nukes in Japan. And we survived all those nay-sayers then too.
Quote from ratboy88:
wait, i thought we went into Iraq because saddam was a brutal dictator that was a meanie head to his own people?
so the solution is to bomb these people into the stone age? so we aren't liberating them?
what was our purpose again?
....come on admit it. Its just like katrina. When everything was callasping you had the republicans going its a ok 