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Originally posted by Mule
Right on Flintstone. The reason our guys are being killed with weapons bought with oil for food money provided by those rat b*stards in Russia, France & Germany is because we won't "lay the smack down.' This won't be won with M16s, but it can be won with B52s.
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Didn't work in Vietname, won't work in Iwreck.
Here I am, a 'peace loving liberal,' yet I seem to understand more about warfare than you chickenhawks.
The only way you "win" a war is through complete and utter subjugation. You have to kill enough of the enemy that they don't have the will and/or resources to continue fighting. With the resources available to us, that's the easy part. If it was simply a matter of 'we need to stop Iraq from attacking the US' it would have been a cake walk; a weekend operation.
The problem is, since this was never about Iraq being a physical threat to the US, we're hogtied from the get-go. We have huge war 'potential' but can't use it. It's like a kid who won't stop kicking the back of your seat at the movie theater. Sure, it annoys you, and you can ask his parents to stop, you can complain to the management, etc, but your choices are to get up and beat the **** out of him (and face the consequences from the other theater patrons) or move to another seat.
We have no more moral justifcation for the 'B-52 soltuion" than Hitler. This isn't just useless hyperbole. If we were to take the Stromberg/Flintstone/Mul(e) approach, and flatten the whole place, we'd essentially be creating a sandy version of Hitler's takeover of Europe. As such, the rest of the world would organize against us. China would be a major player, and has a huge industrial base and even larger manpower base. I'm sure Russian and North Korea would love to get a poke in at us as well. Betcha didn't think of that.