Playing By The Other Guy?s Rules?

[HARDCORE]

You name it, and the bums that we are fighting against in the Middle East have used it! Be it torture, beheading, suicide attacks, or the murder of innocent men, women and children! However, our screwed-up white knights in DC continue to fight this nasty (not so) little war by the other guy?s rules - ?WHY??

*Are our leaders pre-occupied with world opinion - the world don?t support us or defend our interests!

*Are we worried about our good guy image - many a dead man was a good guy!

*Are we concerned about how our allies will view us - hell, they are far too busy figuring out ways of screwing us over!

*Am I too harsh in my opinion of certain powers that be - maybe not harsh enough!

When we fight a war by the other guy?s rules, or use kid gloves against an enemy that utilizes bombs against civilian populations, or continue to fight wars by rules that the enemy does not even recognize, we will suffer needless casualties. And one, after all, does not fight wars to prove that we can absorb the death and mayhem! Like Patton said: ?Let the other guy die for his country!!?

Lastly: ?When did we resolve to fight bloody wars merely to achieve a draw or a half-ass armistice?? Men die just as surely in conflicts that are designed to achieve a stalemate as they do in wars that are geared to win! The only difference is - the nation that you fight to a draw today, will be back at your throat tomorrow!?

Of course, not all of our foes risk oblivion on an open battlefield. Many extend their hands in friendship, bury their knives in our backs, and then pick our pockets after the fact - and so it is in my opinion!!

VERITAS