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2005-10-25 Iraq

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-10-25 13:18|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The Sunnis will never learn, will they? The old days are over. You can't go home again, Charlie Brown. It's time to accept the current status quo, and work within it. That will not happen. These people hold grudges for GENERATIONS. The only thing that will work is force. It's time to take the gloves off, and show the Sunnis just who is the "meanest dog in the fight".

Hearts and minds cannot be won when the people who you're trying to influence hold you in contempt. We need to break that contempt, and put the fear of God AND the American military into these people. I would suggest ar Ramadi be the example. Pull all American and Iraqi forces out, wait three days, and then LEVEL the city and everything within ten miles of it. Use bombs, rockets, tanks, artillery, napalm - hell, catapults, if they'll do damage - and simply turn Ramadi into a pile of small, blood-soaked, fried pebbles. It'll save lives, time, energy, and treasure in the long run. There won't be an Arab city anywhere that won't think "It could happen here, next". It will also take a LOT of the starch out of the surviving Sunnis.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2005-10-25 14:49|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2005-10-25 14:49|| Front Page Top

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