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As highly civilized people, we’re lost touch with some basic concepts. Like war.
We complain that we never win wars anymore, but that’s because we don’t fight them. Instead, we have limited interventions against insurgents. We try to stabilize failed states. Sometimes we go in, take out a few terrorists, and then go back home. Veterans, whose wounds are very real, sit around wondering what it was all for. So do the families of the men who died fighting in a war that was never a war.
To win a war, you have to fight one.
If your enemy is fighting a war and you’re fighting something less than a war, the enemy will win.
Police actions, nation-building exercises, and the like have vague and poorly defined objectives, while wars have very clear ones.
Wars are either won or lost. That’s why modern governments rarely like fighting them. Or doing anything that has clear and measurable results. Once you declare a war, you know you have to win.
We fight things that are not wars to ‘stabilize’ regions. Wars are not fought for stability, but destruction. To win a war, destroy the enemy. That’s what the United States did in WWII, raining mass death and destruction on Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in ways that still make modern liberals cringe.
“The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They have sown the wind, and so they shall reap the whirlwind,” RAF Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Arthur Harris bluntly stated.
“The harder we push, the more Germans we kill. The more Germans we kill, the fewer of our men will be killed. Pushing harder means fewer casualties. I want you all to remember that,” Patton told the Third Army.
FDR’s obsession with taking the war to Japan led to the Doolittle Raid. One of the bombs from that raid hit a school. “It is quite impossible to bomb a military objective that has civilian residences near it without danger of harming the civilian residences as well. That is a hazard of war,” Doolittle had warned.
That is what war is. It’s why wars should not be fought lightly. But when you fight them, fight to win.
A just war is based on a fundamental moral clarity about your enemies, not your tactics. War crimes are a meaningless term except when applied to violations of an agreement between the two combatants or civilians that are not a party to the conflict. That is not the case in Gaza. And is rarely the case when fighting Islamic terrorists.
The United States met the Japanese torture, execution, abuse, medical experiments and cannibalism of our troops with increased determination to win at any cost. This was the cost for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These were not war crimes, this was how a regime of monsters that committed unspeakable atrocities was finally forced to surrender.
That is what fighting to win means.
Winning against Hamas does not mean dropping a few bombs on buildings, staging a limited incursion, taking out a few Hamas leaders and then letting Turkey and Egypt negotiate a truce. That’s not a war.
Winning means destroying Hamas, its leaders, its terrorists and its supporters by any means necessary, and securing the territory they operated from so that it can be used to stage similar attacks.
Can Israel fight and win such a war? Yes, it can. Will it? That’s the question.
Israel, like America, has tried not fighting wars. That is what led to the horrors of the High Holy Day attacks. It may want to fight and win a war before it’s too late.
I propose restoration of historical Christendom.
Be careful about whom is permitted NATO membership.
Yes, keep Turkey out.
Based on early reports out of Israel, with warnings being spread throughout Gaza and all utilities cut off to the area, the IDF plans on a real war…with one of it’s leaders stating yesterday that not only would Hamas be out of power when they finished, but there wouldn’t be enough of them left to formulate a group.
My concern is the multi-front attack, with Lebanon already in the mix and Biden’s well-armed Taliban seeking safe passage through the newly enriched Iran to “finish the job”. With a US carrier task force already in route to the Med, if you don’t see the stage set for war, you’re not looking close enough.
This is war, it must be fought as one, then Israel will prevail, and the US must use all means necessary to support it
Netanyahu and Israel need to tell Alzheimer Joe’s handlers to FUCK off, and do what they need to do: Destroy Hamas.
Daniel, your words really hit home. In two wars in Israel prayed they would be the last, that my children and others wouldn’t know war, tired from funerals of family and friends, now it has turned to the next generation it has to stop. I pray for it.
Bravo, Daniel. You underscore truths that should be obvious and widely-acknowledged, but, that have been indefensibly forgotten by too many people.
Good quotes from Sir Arthur Harris.
My favorite was something like:
“They say that war has never been won by strategic bombing. My reply was, ‘We shall see.'”
Bombing seems pretty effective to me.
People that have fought don’t talk like you.
The problem started with “police action” by Harry Truman. Why he was sucked in , I do not know. Would the US population have supported a declaration of war? Apparently not as the new term was invented. The only excuse for war is survival and no holds barred. The response from the left is Munich etcetera. Ridiculous! Wars are fought for wealth or survival and it is not in the interest of the attacking nation to destroy its’ prey. But it usually occurs.
A conquered nations populace is not trusted to enter the army of the conqueror. The conquered nation gains an added burden to the conqueror because the loser must be kept in submission requiring troops and money.
We should fight for independence and not “interests” which are continuous funding for the MIC. When we win no-one should want the carcass.
“and they created a desert and called it peace.”
Tacitus
Israel must fight an all out war to destroy, annihilate and subjugate all its enemies, both foreign and domestic.
The Temple Mount must be returned to the Jews. It belongs to no one else.
Yes, that mosque needs to go. It’s an abomination.
how low can you go, azshoIe?
I do hope they end hamas so decisively that the others dare not attempt any future attacks. Israel’s stance should be ANY ATTACK will result in a DECLARATION of WAR! And then absolutely DESTROY their attackers! I think they’ve discovered they’ve run out of “cheeks to turn”!
How many have you fought in, bitch?
Not everybody is a soldier or Marine, you asshole. But tropical woke scum that you are, you cant abide people who disagree with your asinine notions and fantasies.
Go suck a bag of Commie dicks.
“Typical” woke leftist. Stupid automatic spell check.