A Gift that Keeps on Giving
2014-12-10 - by
The Taliban’s on a tear and ISIS is selling women as slaves and it looks like Limited Wars have turned out to be a gift that keeps on giving and we’re about to fight one more.
ISIS has reconquered half of Irag but to whip ‘em we’re not sending in the Marines or the paratroopers or the Big Red One – we’re going to whip ‘em with the Air Force alone which even the Air Force says won’t work.
One thing you have to say about World War II: From Guadalcanal to Hiroshima total war was pure hell but it ended. Hitler was dead. Germany crushed. Japan crushed. And, after that, we occupied Germany just long enough to make sure there weren’t enough Nazis left to make a comeback.
Iraq on the other hand is a classic limited war – we went in with too little, bungled the occupation, didn’t crush much of anyone, and ten years later ISIS has re-conquered half the country and we’re in a tarbaby – so the President’s diddling with fighting another limited war.
A Gift that Keeps on Giving
2014-12-10/
The Taliban’s on a tear and ISIS is selling women as slaves and it looks like Limited Wars have turned out to be a gift that keeps on giving and we’re about to fight one more.
ISIS has reconquered half of Irag but to whip ‘em we’re not sending in the Marines or the paratroopers or the Big Red One – we’re going to whip ‘em with the Air Force alone which even the Air Force says won’t work.
One thing you have to say about World War II: From Guadalcanal to Hiroshima total war was pure hell but it ended. Hitler was dead. Germany crushed. Japan crushed. And, after that, we occupied Germany just long enough to make sure there weren’t enough Nazis left to make a comeback.
Iraq on the other hand is a classic limited war – we went in with too little, bungled the occupation, didn’t crush much of anyone, and ten years later ISIS has re-conquered half the country and we’re in a tarbaby – so the President’s diddling with fighting another limited war.