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By Brooks A. Mick, M.D.
July 27, 2006 The Democrats and the media harp and harp and harp about the lack of an exit strategy for the war in Iraq or the war in Afghanistan or the war somewhere in the world. But have they given it any thought? The war against Muslim extremist terrorism is an existential war. That is, it is a war that we must win or cease to exist. And "apres nous, le deluge." If the US is lost, so goes western civilization in its entirety. Useless Knowledge would certainly be shut down, and perhaps its editor and some of its writers beheaded. Or at least lose a hand or two, which might make it difficult to type. Michelle, once her photo in a bikini was spotted on her website, would likely be imprisoned if not wrapped in a burqa and hung from a bridge or thrown off a skyscraper. Other than killing as many terrorists as possible (I don't want to be stuck for the costs of housing them forever in Guantanamo) and establishing democracy in the totalitarian or mullah-dominated nations and winning the war against the Muslim extremists, I don't want to hear about an exit strategy. Just as Israel's exit strategy is to completely destroy Hezbollah so that it ceases to exist, our strategy must be to destroy Muslim extremist terrorism. Any other exit strategy is just a face-saving retreat. Exit strategies are, ultimately, for losers. They aren't for the winners. Case fires and peace treaties are just face-saving transient pauses in a war. They give time to the bad guys to rebuild and re-arm and retrain and recruit. And then they come back at you stronger than ever. Meanwhile, supposedly in a time of peace, the USA always cuts back its military, a la the 1990s Clinton military cutbacks, which left us a more difficult task when the next enemy reared its head. America is, at heart, an isolationist country, which is why Pat Buchanan and others have such an easy time selling the idea that we ought to abandon the world and withdraw inside our borders. That was, to be sure, one of the original ideas of George Washington and the Founding Fathers ("avoid foreign entanglements"), but it isn't feasible in this modern world. Times change. I don't think George W. (Washington, that is) conceived of intercontinental ballistic missiles, atomic warheads, nuclear submarines, nerve gases, biological warfare, or other such "progress" in military hardware. I am sure that, smart as he and Thomas Jefferson and others were, they would be on the side of George W. (Bush, that is) in the fight to make the USA safe from these weapons in the hands of the rogues who would use them. The terrorists are, at heart, not nationalists. They aren't out to protect any single country or city. Thus they are unlike the Soviets. Krushchev and Gorbachev knew that, had they launched a war against us, some of their cities would be nuclear toast. The terrorists bsically don't care. They are willing to have their people killed, to suffer some of their own buddies' deaths, some of their own countries destroyed if, ultimately, they have the chance to destroy western civilization. Thus our having a nuclear deterrence doesn't deter them. So we are attacked by terrorists. Exactly which city of which country would we pick to nuke? My thought would be to transform the entire Middle East into nuclear glass, but that wouldn't go over too well with the UN or the wimpy French or the Swedes or...name your brave new world leader. Now that Muslims have infiltrated most every country in the world, it's going to be really tough to sort out the terrorists and kill them without lots of collateral damage. But it this is a job that every nation on Earth will have to face up to and cooperate with if we are going to succeed. In prior wars (WW1, WW2), the key to victory was for the other nations to talk the USA into joining on their side. In this war, the key is to get the other nations to join on our side. If one talks to Germans and other ordinary citizens of the world, I do believe they are coming around to our way of thinking despite the occasional demonstration by peaceniks and terrorist sympathizers. It is getting their elitist leaders to sign on that is the problem. And of course our media doesn't help. They are a tremendous hindrance in winning this war. If we were to lose, I think our final act should be to hang all the editors and publishers we could get our hands on. That would be my exit strategy, one suitable for the losing side. ------------ About the author Brooks A. Mick: Physician, still practicing medicine but retired from the US Army. Write just for the fun of it, but working on novel in the vein of Tom Clancy's politico-military genre. Email: brooks15@cox.net Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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