{"id":55119,"date":"2014-09-10T14:47:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T18:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55119"},"modified":"2014-09-10T15:36:46","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T19:36:46","slug":"ap-no-end-in-sight-for-us-in-mideast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55119","title":{"rendered":"AP: No end in sight for US in mideast"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pinto Nag sends a link from the Associated Press by the way of MSN<\/a> which laments that there is no end in sight for the US in the war against terror;<\/p>\n

“The Cold War took 45 years,” said Elliott Abrams, a longtime diplomat who was top Middle East adviser to President George W. Bush. “It’s certainly plausible that this could be the same. … It’s harder to see how this ends.”<\/p>\n

For now, President Barack Obama seems to have bipartisan support as he prepares to outline his plans Wednesday for expanded operations against militants of the so-called Islamic State who have overrun large swaths of Iraq. His administration has cautioned that the effort could take several years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, this isn’t the Cold War – the only reason there is no end in sight for the US is because we haven’t had a president in the last 69 years or so who has been willing to fight a war the way wars are supposed to be fought. The United States uses the excuse that “we’re more civilized than they are”, but how civilized is it to sit back in front of your flat screen TV and watch the horrors perpetrated on innocent civilians who are tortured or buried in mass graves because of the shade of their God. <\/p>\n

We get outraged because some Marines urinate on dead enemy or pose with the severed limbs of suicide bombers, and some ugly troll chick pointing at genitalia in a naked pyramid. Granted, I would not have allowed any of those things to occur if I had been one of the leaders on the scene, but that’s no excuse to get our bowels in an uproar over such minor things.<\/p>\n

At the end of World War II neither the Germans nor the Japanese were able to fight their side of the war another step. That’s how wars end. One side defeats completely the other side. World War II started because of some Wilsonian ideal that he could negotiate the end of the prior war. The Korea War is still going on even though actual large scale fighting ended 61 years ago. The Paris Peace Accords of 1973 which ended the Vietnam War made the North Vietnamese promise that they wouldn’t invade the South – that lasted two years. Of course, the US had promised to intercede if they did, that didn’t work out well, either.<\/p>\n

If Saddam Hussein had been put out of office in 1991, George W. Bush wouldn’t have had a reason to invade in 2003 and Barack Obama wouldn’t need to go back today. We let the media end the first Gulf War with their “Highway of Death” hyperbole and Saddam turned around the survivors, re-fit, re-armed them and pointed them at the Shi’ites. <\/p>\n

The reason that there’s no end in sight is because the enemy won’t fight a polite war like we want them to fight. We won’t give them a reason to stop fighting. The United States won’t make it more costly for them to fight than to throw down their weapons. The enemy doesn’t have capitols to surrender, or resources to seize. The only way to stop terrorism is to brutally kill them in large numbers – in the same manner that they took their Caliphate from Syria and Iraq. Four or five airstrikes every week won’t convince them to give it all up. “Cutting off the head” of their organization in the figurative manner has been a failing endeavor.<\/p>\n

Americans, the squeamish little creatures that we are, can’t know how the war is won. We can’t get daily updates on the progress. We can’t have the media burrowing through the after action reports. Tell us that it started and tell us when it ends, but let us save our horror and outrage over the way the war was fought for reading the books afterwards. Otherwise, there is no end in sight in the war against terror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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