Diana West at TownHall.com:
Somehow, American war goals have become a secondary consideration when America wages war. As Command Sgt. Maj. Jeff Mellinger put it to The Washington Times: “We could absolutely crush every one of (our enemies in Iraq), but would you be happy with what is left?”
Well, it sure sounds better than asking American troops to knock on doors, card terrorists and drive over IEDs for the next 20 years. But not to the powers that be. In our new age, in our post-modern culture, American war goals — American self-preservation — are secondary to war casualties, and I don’t mean our own.
That’s who we are — socially humane, expendable and increasingly impotent. It’s not who our fathers and grandfathers were. The men who decimated German and Japanese cities as part of the effort to win World War II as quickly as possible would have been perplexed by descendants who now send American troops house to booby-trapped house and expect to achieve anything but more war, “limited” though it may be.
Talk about waste.
As usual, Diana’s points are well taken. We have lost sight of the fact that step number one in winning the war, is winning the war. .. not in worrying about whether not we are being “moral”.
War, ladies and gentlemen, is the absence of law and of morality. The way we reestablish law and morality is winning the damn war. If we don’t win the war, the enemy gets to establish their version of morality and law. In the most recent instance that means Sharia law, and the morality of the Islamo-Facist.
The fastest way to lose a war is to lose our focus on winning it… I submit that’s precisely what many among us would prefer we do.
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