GO BIG, OR GO HOME…AND OTHER THINGS.
The
recent decision by the White House to leave a small force behind in Afghanistan is,
in my opinion, a mistake. The heading
above tells the story…go big, or go home.
Leaving a force behind that is straddled with ridiculous rules of
engagement, dealing with tribal personnel that, really, could care less who
runs the country because they will fight for or against whoever treats them
better. A smaller force can be picked
off one-by-one and that will probably be the enemy’s strategy. Inside the United States we tell people that
if they see something they should say something, right? Were it up to me I would tell the US field
commanders in war zones that if they see someone they should shoot
someone. War, by almost any definition,
has to contain an element of what the military calls “collateral damage” and
what the rest of us call civilian casualties.
In World War 2 the Navy would
sit offshore and send huge shells to whatever area needed to be “softened
up”…then the various administrations retired the battleships and heavy
cruisers, to be replaced by an assortment of missiles.
General
Curtis LeMay once said that he preferred to “bomb them back to the Stone Age”
and for a lot of people in the muddled Middle East,
that’s not a big stretch.
ISIS is definitely one of those groups that should be, and
could be, carpet-bombed back to the Stone Age.
No other group that’s associated with them, no matter what they may call
themselves, is so determined to take the world back to the 7th
Century. They should be accommodated by
bombing them incessantly with the B-52’s that are sitting, unused, at an
airbase in Tucson, Arizona.
With the technology that we have now, we probably wouldn’t even have to
man these bombers so if the planes were shot down somehow, no personnel would
be in danger…I could be wrong on that one, but I don’t think so.
Since
I mentioned the Navy, let’s see what’s going on there. Are we going big there? What ships are being added to the fleet are
smaller, specialty ships, mostly incapable of delivering heavy shelling to
pound the enemy. The administration is
slicing and dicing all the armed forces to the point where, according to
experts, it would be very nearly impossible to mount a foreign war, much less
defend the homeland. Between the Navy
and the Coast Guard they are doing splendid work, but they’re just not as big
as they should be. Go big, or go
home…and it looks like we’re going home.
A
potential enemy, Russia,
is attempting to re-establish that country as a world superpower and because of
our administration’s crazy non-strategy all over the world, they may
succeed. As a matter of fact, the
Russians said that our leader has “mush for brains” and that would be my
sentiments also. No one, looking at the
big picture of our strategy, or lack thereof, in various incidents, could say
that the plans were based on solid experience.
Barack Hussein Obama(and I just LOVE those American names) is like a
proctologist conducting an examination…everything he touches turns to
crap. Whatever he says or promises, he
then turns around and does the exact opposite, or causes the opposite to
happen. Oh, he did go big on this one
thing…Obamacare. It has ruined what
used to be one of the best health care systems in the world. Now it’s like a painful ingrown toenail…you
cannot just let it go on, you have to snip and cut until you get the nail out
and the toe can become normal again.
Go
big…and he is going big on importation of so-called “refugees”. Some of these people, mostly young,
able-bodied men, are probably terrorists.
Nevertheless, and many times without warning, groups of these “refugees”
are being dumped in unsuspecting cities and towns across America. He said, at the beginning of his presidency,
that he wanted some sort of police/army that would be equal to the US
Army. These “refugees” are most likely
that private army being formed right under our noses…and we’re letting it
happen. You will see more and more
so-called “lone wolf” attacks on Americans as time goes by, but don’t kid
yourself, these are being manipulated from behind the scenes as a way of
terrorizing the public. If you’re out
and about and someone approaches you rapidly, waving a knife or a hatchet, what
are you going to do?
Go
big…and here’s a way to do that. We
have thousands of veterans who would proudly serve in some capacity to protect
the homeland. My plan, as an example,
would be to station vets at the border with Mexico. They would be “federalized” the same way the
TSA was, and they would have the authority to detain and interrogate anyone
crossing the border. Let them have
their own weapons, which I’m guessing about 90% of them already have, and
they’d be stationed about 50 yards apart on a 12 hour shift. They would be on duty 12 hours and then off
48 hours. They would earn the minimum
wage for Federal workers in that same position. Think about it, this would ease unemployment
while at the same time protecting the border.
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