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Originally Posted by Porn Farmer
I was on a ultra conservative forum I lurk at and was reading some of the posts by members rationalising why they are going to vote for John McCain, even though they hate him. One of them said, "He will pursue the War on Terror to a victory over Islamofascist terrorism."
I'm just wondering... how do you "defeat" terrorism... and if he does becomes POTUS what could McCain do in his term that Bush hasn't already done that would bring about a "Victory"?
Sounds like more trillions of dollars down the shitter and creating a new generation of terrorists to me.
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Easy answer...you change the mindset. There are multiple ways to accomplish this...and one of them is overwhelming crushing force...such as was used against the Japanese. Their culture/religion was as different to ours as the muslim culture/religion is to ours. No quarter given...in the form of unconditional surrender...overwhelming crushing force...changed their mindset and they ultimately meekly surrendered. Force does work.
One country at a time...and time itself...multiple generations of time. Iraq was mishandled due to Rumsfeld primarily...but also due to others. If the Powell doctrine of engaging our troops would have been used many of the problems that took place in the early stages of the conflict in Iraq would not have happened or at the least would have been greatly diminished and Iraq would in all probability be reasonably stable at this point...but from the beginning the Admin knew or should have known that we would have a military presence in Iraq for generations to come just as we still have a military presence in Germany and Japan and many other countries around the world.