tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7530739.post7050590162770325420..comments2024-03-02T05:30:52.253-05:00Comments on Alternate Brain: So tell me ...Fixerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09672137568947891733noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7530739.post-39489701162659776922011-08-02T13:38:39.930-04:002011-08-02T13:38:39.930-04:00Nothing could be finer than all those troops comin...Nothing could be finer than all those troops coming home now. Except that Adm McMullen is currently in Iraq trying like hell to get them to invite us to stay for another round. Hell, that war was over years ago and we haven't get them home yet.montaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15333471337818106739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7530739.post-88629055133699290112011-08-02T11:23:49.170-04:002011-08-02T11:23:49.170-04:00"You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than..."You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it ..." -- William Tecumseh Sherman.<br /><br />Who knew his shit, yo. And ended the American Civil War by burning a swathe through the economic heartland of the Confederacy until the remaining Confederate armies collapsed due to starvation and desertion (on paper Johnson's army opposing him in North Carolina had more soldiers than Sherman's army, but in reality all but 15,000 or so had deserted due to lack of food). <br /><br />That is war. Not this namby-pamby "nation building" bullshit that pretends war can be something *other* than cruelty. Folks often talk about our success in building a new Japan and Germany after WW2, but ignore the fact that <i>we utterly destroyed them</i>. Crap, we even *nuked* the fucking Japanese! When we were done with them, the starving survivors living in the rubble of their once-proud nations had absolutely no desire to shoot any weapon in our direction, and if we had told'em to all walk in circles while reciting "God Bless America", they woulda done it just so we wouldn't start bouncing their rubble again. That's war. Not this "nation building" bullshit.<br /><br />If we aren't there to bounce the rubble of folks who attacked us or declared war on us, we don't need to be there -- period. Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda are dead. DEAD. Mission accomplished. Bring the troops home.<br /><br />- Badtux the War PenguinBadTuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.com