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2015-01-11 Terror Networks

Ralph Peters: US Must ‘Leave Behind Smoking Ruins and Crying Widows’ Fighting Terrorism

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Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2015-01-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 Easier to say than to do - because to truly be effective, you have to go in and get personal. If flinging bombs from a distance worked, Clinton's cruise missile campaign would have been enough.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-01-11 00:34|| 2015-01-11 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Clinton didn't want to create smoking ruins and wailing widows though. I think Peters is thinking of something like strategic and/or counter value retaliation against terror supporting nations or territorial entities.

For example, do those Yemenis who protect AQ camps own any tangible infrastructure that could be destroyed by airstrikes?

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2015-01-11 04:22|| 2015-01-11 04:22|| Front Page Top

#3 No!

The tribe that the US arms must do that (minus the widows, put them in the ground with the men.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2015-01-11 05:16|| 2015-01-11 05:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Too many closed minds shut by Marxist laced academia. Can't teach that a lot of 19th Century 'imperialism' was prompted by similar acts of uncivilized behavior, that 'colonialism' had traits to suppress and extinguish these cycles of violence. It all wasn't exploitation of poor natives who would in fact benefit from stable government and 'law and order'. And how more oppressive were these colonial administrations than today's socialist oligarchies/kleptocracies? /rhet question.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-01-11 08:36|| 2015-01-11 08:36|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't know, I think a dozen ARCLIGHT strikes down through the heart of every Arab capital would do a lot to change "hearts and minds" of the survivors (if there are any). Also, nuke Mecca and Medina with the largest nukes we can build, napalm any "demonstration" that shoots up, and shoot individuals with pig-fat-dipped bullets. We need a leader that will stand up and say, "You want to follow a strong horse? We'll show you a strong horse, in spades!" We also need to shoot all the enablers -- the press, 90% of academia, and most NGOs. Tell the UN to move to move to Bora Bora, and then level the area. Put it into a pig farm (for all that fat we'll need).

Posted by Old Patriot 2015-01-11 17:16|| 2015-01-11 17:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Drink UP!

Posted by Frank G 2015-01-11 17:23|| 2015-01-11 17:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Realistically, I wouldn't think curtailing Boko would take that many advisors. I don't see how allowing their ascendency serves US interests. I would like to see them on the defensive.

Supporting the Khurds in killing the European Jihadis doesn't seem like a bridge too far either. Setting up a security perimeter so that the Warriors can't return home would be another immediate priority.

Short of another attack on the US, I think that is about what you can get done in the next two years. As Holder, a man who can mouth the words jihad or Islamic radical, was sent to stand by France, I can't see anything happening in the near term. Biden wasn't sent because they thought he would have gone off the cuff and expressed outrage or committed us to action that are inconsistent with Obama policy.

Posted by Super Hose 2015-01-11 17:48|| 2015-01-11 17:48|| Front Page Top

#8 agreed. It seems an aggressively anti-Boko mindset in the WH could do a lot of damage with airdropped SF.

the problem is this Admin is not anti-Muzzie hate groups

Posted by Frank G 2015-01-11 18:00|| 2015-01-11 18:00|| Front Page Top

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