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How would you suggest achieving your 'overwhelming military victory' in Afghanistan, or Iraq?

• maratd 14y ago
  You need to realize what military victory is first. It is the annihilation of the old and the creation of the new. You destroy what you don't like and you create what you do like. In WWII, we weren't terrible fans of fascism. It was annihilated and replaced with Western-style democratic cultural norms and institutions. In the case of Eastern Germany, Poland, etc. it was communism. Regardless, there was never any debate that fascism had to go and what had to be put in place. And there was never any doubt that this must be done with force. Today, the idea of forcing a political system and a way of life onto an occupied territory is unthinkable. As a consequence, victory is not achievable. > How would you suggest achieving your 'overwhelming military victory' in Afghanistan, or Iraq? By a sustained and overwhelming effort to turn the cultures of those regions toward American values. Skip the bombing and the incursions. I would bomb them with DVDs of the Jersey Shore instead. Look up Ataturk for effective strategies of modernizing large tracts of Muslim populations.