Jihadi Du Jour: A winning strategy, kill the bad guys

From Right Truth

What a concept, kill the enemy! Out of the mouth of the New York Post, Ralph Peters suggests we made a mistake by 'empowering a sectarian regime before imposing order in the streets'. Not the politically correct thing to say, but I like it. (emphasis mine as always)

What really matters is what our forces are ordered - and permitted - to do. With political correctness permeating our government and even the upper echelons of the military, we never tried the one technique that has a solid track record of defeating insurgents if applied consistently: the rigorous imposition of public order.

That means killing the bad guys. Not winning their hearts and minds, placating them or bringing them into the government. Killing them.
If you're not willing to lay down a rule that any Iraqi or foreign terrorist masquerading as a security official or military member will be shot, you can't win. And that's just one example of the type of sternness this sort of fight requires. NYP

Of course the United States is NOT going to lay down that rule, but we are laying down some suggestions for Maliki:

Reportedly, our CentCom commander, Gen. George Abizaid, just had a "come to Jesus meeting" (metaphor fully intended) with Maliki, warning him that our continued support is contingent on the government moving to impose public order and protect all of Iraq's people. The result is predictable: A few law-enforcement gestures by daylight, some reshuffled government appointments - and more sectarian killing.

Forgive me, but haven't we made this warning previously? And where did it get us? Maliki kissing up to al Sadr and ordering the U.S. forces to leave him and his Mahdi army alone. Apparently the 'come to Jesus' meeting should have been a 'come to the full force of the American military' meeting.

To master Iraq now - if it could be done - we'd have to fight every faction except the Kurds. Are we willing to do that? Are we willing to kill mass murderers and cold-blooded executioners on the spot?
If not, we can't win, no matter what else we do.

Our "humanity" is cowardice masquerading as morality. We're protecting self-appointed religious executioners with our emphasis on a "universal code of behavior" that only exists in our fantasies. By letting the thugs run the streets, we've abandoned the millions of Iraqis who really would prefer peaceful lives and a modicum of progress.

It's been said before, the terrorists are not playing by any rules other than their own -- kill, torture, destroy in any way possible. They don't care about 'restraint', or 'high morals', or political correctness, 'humanity', or 'winning hearts and minds'. They don't give a crap about hearts and minds, they care about destroying anyone who doesn't agree with, and submit to, them.

Our naive version of wartime morality handed Iraq to the murderers. Will our excuse for a sectarian bloodbath be that we "behaved with restraint?"

Any code of ethics that squanders the lives of tens of thousands and the future of millions so we can "claim the moral high ground" is hypocrisy worthy of the Europeans who made excuses for the Holocaust.

If we want to give Iraq's silent - and terrified - majority a last chance, we would have to accept the world's condemnation for killing the killers. If we are unwilling to do that, Iraq's finished.

Our military have not been allowed to do what they are trained to do, fight and win. Shame on our government for that. Shame.

Labels: Global War on Terrorism