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Very educational. The U.S. response to I.S. seems completely out of touch. The only way it makes any sense is if it is a Honeypot tactic -- to lure in as many r
by transfire 11y ago
Very educational. The U.S. response to I.S. seems completely out of touch. The only way it makes any sense is if it is a Honeypot tactic -- to lure in as many radical Muslims to one place as possible before unleashing on them. And yet no ground troops are forthcoming, and I am pretty sure they can have babies faster than we can bomb them out of existence.
- maxharris 11y agoI am pretty sure they can have babies faster than we can bomb them out of existence When we defeated Nazi Germany, 70 years ago, we pulled no punches: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_Wa... We killed between 22,700 to 25,000 of the enemy's population in just two days (February 13th-15th, 1945). In a different raid on Japan, we killed between 88,000 and 100,000 people in a single air raid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo I hasten to add that the weapons we have at our disposal today are vastly more powerful than any weapon we had 70 years ago. While there are people today that question the effectiveness of these specific raids in bringing the war, the overall point remains: we fought a total war, and the result was a total victory, and a lasting peace with the new nations that sprang from the rubble. Today we don't have a tenth of the moral certainty that our grandparents' generation had, and that is why we (the West) are losing.