Name:   MAJ USA RET - Subject:   Looks like Iraq is gone - so too Afghanistan Date:   6/13/2014 9:19:59 AM (updated 6/13/2014 9:22:47 AM)

a) Iraq is gone. It was scheduled to be gone the day we started “nation building.” I knew Iraq (and Afghanistan) would return to Sharia inspired treachery the first week I worked with the Iraqi government. Google up taqiyya. 

b) As it turns out the WMDs that we did not find in Iraq had been moved to Syria (we have imagery of Sadam doing this)- - where the Israelis had to subsequently take out the nuclear portion and the chemical parts were left over for Assad to use on his own people a la Sadam Hussein. 

c) As has Iraq, Afghanistan will also revert. No matter how we leave them, their cultural impetus is to return to Islamic life and all of its attendant cruelty. It would have been less costly in blood and resources, had we done nothing but conquer and depart - - the remedy we effected for Saddam in Kuwait. 

d) So - -  what DO the Muslims understand? They understand defeat. They neither understand nor respect “nation building” or “charity” or “forgiveness” on the part of the victor in a conflict. 

Therefore, my premise is that we should meet their expectations when we strike preemptively or in retaliation for the harboring and or exporting of terrorism. If they ignore our diplomatic warning - - we should exact selective and meaningful destruction of infrastructure - - while avoiding carnage. 

Our military strategy should be to simultaneously drop eVeRY significant bridge (halt all motorized transportation) and simultaneously demolish eVeRY power station and switchyard (turn off utilities). This aerial/cruise missile campaign MUST be followed by dead silence on our part. No occupation - - no nation building. ISLAM UNDeRSTANDS THIS PeRFeCTLY. I predict we would have to do this only once (do you remember Muammar Gaddafi?) 

- - LMF Curmudgeon