Newark Execution Murders

[NuurAbSaal]

So I take it you believe that if we were just a little nicer to the murderous extremists they would finally see the error of their ways, or perhaps the rational Islamic world would finally grow a spine and denounce them? Or, maybe we should go back to the Clinton strategy of ignoring them, and whenever they perform a murderous act, we should prove our impotence by lobbing a cruise missile at some token symbolic target? I'm no expert in asymmetrical warfare, but I know you don't win by being weak, hiding from them, ignoring them, or as well by bullying them. From what I've read, we are doing the right things in Iraq now. I don't know if it will work, but in my opinion developing a strategy and trying to do something is better than what had been done the previous two decades. I believe ultimately that this is a battle of will, so whomever flinches first loses. Based on the opinions here, and the ever popular tide it will the us first. So if you are correct and defeat is inevitable, then I fear only more murder, mayhem and bloodshed can follow.

The fundamental error, that you keep making, is assuming that this asymmetrical warfare is the way to win the War on Terror. A huge political effort supported by as many nations as possible is, in my limited understanding of it all, the only way to slowly put an end to the tragedy that's happening in Iraq right now.

American policy looked promising at the start of Afghanistan and then things kind of got out of hand, politically speaking. Decisions were made that make achieving above-mentioned effort nigh impossible. And not only because of a certain perceived lack of trying on part of the US ("coalition of the willing" and the rest can go to hell), other governments, being made up of politicians, added their own way of failing to the mess.

Continuing what you are doing now is not going to solve anything, ever, unless you consider nuking stuff or deploying hundreds of thousands more troops. Ask Israel.

This whole "whoever flinches first" crap might fit well in a John Wayne movie but it's totally out of place in middle-eastern reality as I perceive it.

take care
Tarabulus