On Apr 21, 4:54 pm, Eric F. Richards wrote:
Cato wrote:
So what the ****s wrong with my hating I.E.D.'s and asshole
suicide bombers when ther're killing our boys and innocent
people????????? Don't tell me that they don't bother you!!!

Sure. But whether you like it or not, they are fighting to win for
whatever their cause is. Their attitude is, "**** fair." And,
frankly, that attitude wins wars and ultimately saves lives.

The crap with exclusion zones and fighting these guys with one hand
tied behind our back won't work. It may assuage our western
consciences, but it won't work... unless some large portion of the
populace fears that we will *stop* doing that.

We didn't in VietNam, so while they were sticking bamboo shoots under
fingernails of prisoners, we were worrying about exclusion zones.

In Iraq, we don't attack mosques used as armories because we want to
respect the mosque and Islam. How is using it as an armory
"respecting Islam?"
The crap with exclusion zones and fighting these guys with one hand
tied behind our back won't work. It may assuage our western
consciences, but it won't work... unless some large portion of the
populace fears that we will *stop* doing that.

We didn't in VietNam, so while they were sticking bamboo shoots under
fingernails of prisoners, we were worrying about exclusion zones.

In Iraq, we don't attack mosques used as armories because we want to
respect the mosque and Islam. How is using it as an armory
"respecting Islam?"

I think we are maybe not talking about the same thing exactly. What
I am talking about is that in this war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the
enemy has no feelings about innocent civilians. They will not hesitate
to target innocent people and erase them from this world. I would like
to think that we do not intentionally target civilian non-combatants.
If we did, then we would be just as much murderous animals as the
enemy that we fight.
(( Only if some country fired nukes at our cities, or we had
conclusive evidence that they about to fire them at us, ( example,
North Korea) would I agree to taking out the country with massive
retaliation on their cities.))
That is what I am talking about. Doing the best we can to take
out the enemy, and leave the civilians unharmed as best we can. Sure
there will be times were we fall down on that effort and some
civilians will be killed accidentally, but I would like to think that
we do our outmost to keep those innocent deaths to an absolute
minimum.
Cato