- * Sending troops into Iraq
* Threatening to bomb Iran
Since Iraq is, effectively, an Iranian state, is the president sending U.S. troops into a danger zone when it is not necessary?
IN MODERN WARFARE, boots on the ground are needed only to secure territory.
Wars will — as long promised — be fought “long distance.”
People — military and civilian, but not politicians — still will die, but until land is captured, rifles can gather dust.
Today, war will be fought with armed drones and missiles fired from distant sites or from under water.
So far it seems targets have been carefully selected to reduce “collateral damage,” e.g., innocent — or not so innocent — civilians and nearby structures.
The main questions for the U.S. and its allies — if any can be trusted to help the America’s cause — are:
- 1: Is there an end game plan? How will the U.S. end the war?
2: In what TYPE war will the U.S. be engaged? Iran and its Muslim allies — and they number in the millions and are found around the globe — prefer ambushes, sneak attacks on civilian and well as military targets (viz. 9-11 and Fort Hood), and suicide murders where the killer joyfully goes to meet his 70 virgins.
The U.S. can, sans any doubt, send Iran back to a post Achaemenid Dynasty (434-530 CE) period.1
Never mind that thousands of Persians, Iraqis, and Syrians — including some Kurds and Christians — will die, even with so-called targeted missile and drone attacks. If Gaza is any example, the ayatollahs will hide behind children and cry to the useless UN that America is targeting children.
At the end of World War 2 the U.S. came up with the Marshall Plan2, named for the U.S. general who conceived it (proving there is more to the military than killing).
The plan put forth by Gen. Geo. C. Marshall was to rebuild Europe’s industry and economy. The plan worked so well that not only did the U.S. fund most of the reconstruction, but it saw the demise of it own steel industry (that could not compete with the up-to-date processes the U.S. provided the Germans).
Japan also recovered largely through the efforts of another U.S. general, Douglas MacArthur.3
America’s largess was mocked in the movie The Mouse That Roared”.4
The difference between the axis and the roaring rodent and the ayatollahs is that WW 2 was a “conventional” war, and while there was some gorilla warfare (depending on your side, either terrorism or patriotism) suicide murders were rare.
True, Japan had its kamikazes ready to die for the emperor, but on the whole, suicide murders were the exception, rather than the rule as they seem to be with the Muslims.
Before America goes to war with Iran and its proxies, it needs a way to restore what is left of these countries to assume their role in a civilized world, and in a way that will convince Islam that world domination is not in its best interest. (I am not certain this can be accomplished.)
Japan owed its allegiance to the emperor, a human considered a god. Islam owes its allegiance to Mohamed, a human considered as almost a god, with the imams as his emissaries.
The U.S. can take out the enemy’s leadership as it has proven. The LA Times offers a list of “removed” terrorists under a headline reading “The kill list: Islamic State leaders taken off the battlefield.”5 Unfortunately, new leaders keep filling the gap. Unlike leaders of countries, these people are mobile and their followers are almost ubiquitous; no place is free from suicide murders.
There is no doubt the U.S. could turn Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, and other places around the globe into ashes, but the cost to unwilling populations, populations forced to house these Islamic terrorists, would be a hundred Hiroshimas and Nagasakis.
Bottom Line: Were I president — fortunately for the world I am not — I would withdraw U.S. troops from the region. If the locals prefer the Islamist terrorists — they seem to be willing hosts — let them have them. No American life is worth sacrificing for people who refuse to make an effort to free themselves of their own doing.
We don’t need to have troops in Iraq. We don’t need to have troops in Syria. We don’t even need troops in Israel except for R&R or training in a desert environment.
But if U.S. troops MUST be anywhere overseas, the government must have an exit plan in place.
So far, it appears such a plan does not exist.
Think of the taxpayer dollars that could be saved by bringing ALL U.S. troops back home.
Sources
1. Persia: https://tinyurl.com/y6y2k96p
2. Marshall Plan: https://tinyurl.com/y7rzmj4w
3. MacArthur: https://tinyurl.com/q7v8mx8
4. Movie: https://tinyurl.com/u4bkx67
5. Leaders removed: https://tinyurl.com/su6zz55
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