Paging George Patton
The current buzzword for the Iraq war is “troop surge.” Adding more support troops will only provide more targets. Instead, we need a leader to step forward who is not afraid to change tactics and go on the offensive, rather than men who fret over making PR mistakes.
We at home must perform the awful moral calculus of war and realize that as terrible as it is, there are things that are worse; ask the dead in the concentration camps or the millions Mao butchered while the world looked away.
Considering the political constraints, is our fine military capable of producing a George Patton or a Curtis LeMay? These rough men understood that they were saving more lives than they were taking by bringing the war to a rapid close, despite their somewhat callous tactics. Do we at home have the stomach for what will be necessary to achieve victory?
The current buzzword for the Iraq war is “troop surge.” Adding more support troops will only provide more targets. Instead, we need a leader to step forward who is not afraid to change tactics and go on the offensive, rather than men who fret over making PR mistakes.
We at home must perform the awful moral calculus of war and realize that as terrible as it is, there are things that are worse; ask the dead in the concentration camps or the millions Mao butchered while the world looked away.
Considering the political constraints, is our fine military capable of producing a George Patton or a Curtis LeMay? These rough men understood that they were saving more lives than they were taking by bringing the war to a rapid close, despite their somewhat callous tactics. Do we at home have the stomach for what will be necessary to achieve victory?