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Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Afghanistan
Tell
me you're not thinking about it too.
D-DAY PLUS 66. When they're out of power, Democrats want to turn every war into Vietnam. They're always wrong. What turns a war into Vietnam is Democrats in power. They're the ones who stop trying to win and who allow our troops to be sacrificed for nothing while they fiddle and fret and fulminate. Because they're also the ones who don't care at all about our troops except as props for their posturing. I just got an email from a sometime contributor I can't disagree with. I won't name him because I didn't ask permission to print what he said. (All my contributors know I feel free to post their emails, but let him identify himself if he wants to.) But here it is.
I'm still reading Junger's
"War", but it's slow going. It's hard for me
to read a lot of it at once because I can't help thinking that we're
wasting our time in Afghanistan. We shouldn't have troops over there.
Instead, we should drop as much nuclear ordinance as is needed to make
the entire country radioactive for the next 100 years. That will also
take care of the poppy growing problem. Then let more populous arab
nations fight amongst each other for who gets to host the next Taliban
training camp, thus earning the honor of being the next area to glow in
the dark for a century.
Was the decision to nuke Japan, twice, really any different? We can dick around in the Afghan mountains, fighting a war of attrition and putting our bravest soldiers at risk with objectives and ROE that change with every shift in political power back home. Or we can drop some ordinance one time and not look back. I got really sad last night reading about how this SSG Rougle died, possibly executed by a shot through the forehead, when a US position was overrun. He was seen as a legendary super soldier and one of his men broke down and started crying in the middle of battle when he realized Rougle was dead. Then the entire mission changed to trying to prevent the enemy (nobody even knew where they were or which direction they went) from reaching a nearby village with the equipment that was looted off of Rougle's body because they might use it for propaganda, and once they reached the village they could blend in with the local population. So you've got howitzers, Apaches, A-10s, and a whole gaggle of troops on a mountainside scrambling to recover some weapons and NVGs because if the bad guys make it to the village, we can't risk upsetting the civilians to get the gear back.
What a fucking joke. Nuke them all and keep our military ready for a tougher threat, like the Chinese. Because as soon as Haji gets a suitcase nuke, he won't think twice about using it on us.
Was the decision to nuke Japan, twice, really any different? We can dick around in the Afghan mountains, fighting a war of attrition and putting our bravest soldiers at risk with objectives and ROE that change with every shift in political power back home. Or we can drop some ordinance one time and not look back. I got really sad last night reading about how this SSG Rougle died, possibly executed by a shot through the forehead, when a US position was overrun. He was seen as a legendary super soldier and one of his men broke down and started crying in the middle of battle when he realized Rougle was dead. Then the entire mission changed to trying to prevent the enemy (nobody even knew where they were or which direction they went) from reaching a nearby village with the equipment that was looted off of Rougle's body because they might use it for propaganda, and once they reached the village they could blend in with the local population. So you've got howitzers, Apaches, A-10s, and a whole gaggle of troops on a mountainside scrambling to recover some weapons and NVGs because if the bad guys make it to the village, we can't risk upsetting the civilians to get the gear back.
What a fucking joke. Nuke them all and keep our military ready for a tougher threat, like the Chinese. Because as soon as Haji gets a suitcase nuke, he won't think twice about using it on us.
I have nothing to add.
