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Never quit the fight

• Posted by Larry on July 15th, 2006 filed in General, Iraq, Larry, Politics, Support this, The War    

Ralph Peters, a retired army officer, has a new book out called, ‘Never Quit the Fight.’ As usual it’s full of common sense such as this:

Our policy toward terrorists and insurgents in civilian clothing should be straightforward and public: Surrender before firing a shot or taking hostile action toward our troops, and we’ll regard you as a legal prisoner. But once you’ve pulled a trigger, thrown a grenade or detonated a bomb, you will be killed. On the battlefield and on the spot.

It seems to me that he is correct. Forget using the terrorists as sources of intel. I can tell you for a fact that they are told that once captured they should claim abuse. It’s in their playbook.
He explains how they dealt with now:

Consider today’s norm: A terrorist in civilian clothes can explode an IED, killing and maiming American troops or innocent civilians, then demand humane treatment if captured - and the media will step in as his champion. A disguised insurgent can shoot his rockets, throw his grenades, empty his magazines, kill and wound our troops, then, out of ammo, raise his hands and demand three hots and a cot while he invents tales of abuse.

The bullshi’ite called political correctness is even polluting our military:

Sadly, even our military has been infected by political correctness. Some of my former peers will wring their hands and babble about “winning hearts and minds.” But we’ll never win the hearts and minds of terrorists. And if we hope to win the minds, if not the hearts, of foreign populations, we must be willing to kill the violent, lawless fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population determined to terrorize the rest.

Look, these people are vermin. Plain and simple. There is only one way to deal with them:

Ravaged societies crave and need strict order. Soft policies may appear to work in the short term, but they fail overwhelmingly in the longer term. Wherever we’ve tried sweetness and light in Iraq, it has only worked as long as our troops were present - after which the terrorists returned and slaughtered the beneficiaries of our good intentions. If you wish to defend the many, you must be willing to kill the few.

Here is the sum of it all:

Instead of worrying over trumped-up atrocities in Iraq (the media give credence to any claim made by terrorists), we should stop apologizing and take a stand. That means firm rules for the battlefield, not Gumby-speak intended to please critics who’ll never be satisfied by anything America does.

And finally:

The ultimate act of humanity in the War on Terror is to win. To do so, we must kill our enemies wherever we encounter them. He who commits an act of terror forfeits every right he once possessed.

Read the whole article here, and pick up the book.