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Originally Posted by Schroeder
How would that be achieved? It's not like the government has everything under control in their own country. The militants won't back down just because you kill some of them. The collateral damage would probably be greater than the actual losses of the Taliban and their sympathisers, which in return will increase their numbers. Remember moral bombing in WW2? Didn't work at all no matter which side used it.
I actually don't see much of a chance for winning this anymore if we don't use alternative resupply routes and close the border to Pakistan in a Berlin Wall style.  |
Kill their officers, intel and military. Kill their experts, and analysts. Kill their key figuresthat run public life, and keep their economy alive. Drones, missiles, cruise missiles, no matter what. The political class. The religious leaders. The preachers. Shoot them, poison them, bomb them, no matter how - but bring death to them, no matter how. No safe haven anywhere anymore. Collateral damage? I'm sorry, but let nothing come between you and your military targets. This is war. Like WWII was a war. Nobody thouight about saving Nazi key figures, and not provoking themn, and not attacking them becasue they might strike back. Killing the key personnel of your enemy is a military objective - it are relevant targets. Bring chaos to Pakistan like they bring chaos to Afghanistan. Their troops do not stay neutral? Target them. They supply info to the Taliban, even orders? Kill them. They meet somewhwere? Strike them. They meet in a camp - strike there. They meet in a cafe - strike there.
No safe havens for any target person anymore. No diplomatic washup. I do not say that it should be the intention to kill civilians in scores as high as possible. But I say do not allow the presence of civilians to make you hesitate to acchiedve your objectives and kill your targets. If the target is free of civilians - good. If civilians happen to be near - destroy the objective and kill the targets nevertheless.
That'S cruel. That is brutal. That is war. I thinlk of it in terms of detemrination. We lack this determination to not allow being stopped by the enemy. We accept to play by his rules. That's why we have lost - I say that since many years, since 2005.
So either let's get dirty hands, or pull out. If only we would want it, we would be far superior in coimbat power and firepower. But our concerns, oh our precious, civilised, cautious, fearsome concerns. "Let's fight a little war - but let's fight it
sensitivly, will we please." Oh dear.
