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On the Offensive

6.26.02 @ 12:01AM

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Certainly from a much more discerning and discriminating time.
-- Edward Del Colle

Jed Babbin has it half right, but all his conclusions are defensive in nature and any student of Clausewitz will inform you that the defense has never won a war. Here is a list of my top twelve methods of stopping terror:

1) Kick the Syrians out of Lebanon. This occupied country is the key to the situation in the Middle East. Kick out the Syrians and the terrorists attacking Israel's northern border don't have a base. Plus, this country will regain the initiative we squandered in November.

2) Replace the United Nations with a new world organization that allows Democracies to participate, not dictatorships. Give the Iranians, Syrians, Iraqis, and especially the Egyptians and Saudi Arabians the boot. Some of their "diplomats" are scouting targets and funneling in arms and explosives in diplomatic pouches. The arsenal of democracy should not belong to an organization that allows thugs and murderers equal standing.

3) Stop giving foreign aid to Egypt as long as it remains a dictatorship. Perhaps some Egyptians actually like us, but it is no accident that Egyptians are heavily represented in the top echelons of Al Qaeda. A democratic society can never trust a dictatorship.

4) Send the Marines into Pakistan. Al Qaeda is holing up in Pakistan. You are either with us or against us. Pakistan is a dictatorship and its ISS intelligence agency hates America. Why does our government continue to pretend otherwise? When the nuclear weapon explodes in New York, Washington D.C. or Los Angeles, Pakistan will be behind it.

5) Make the State Department shut up and get out of the way when American victims of terrorism are suing terrorist Nations. Unleash the lawyers and sue the bums. Make them pay.

6) Do not allow Egyptian, Saudi Arabian, and other Middle Eastern Islamic dictatorships to fly their airlines into U.S. airspace. Saudi Arabia refuses to disclose its passenger list to U.S. authorities. One whacko Egyptian pilot has already committed murder with his airplane over the ocean. We don't want one to fly into the White House.

7) Bomb the Afghan militias siding with Iran. Kill them all. Smash them now before our boys get hit by a truck bomb in the barracks. We owe Iran no favors. The State Department might want to cozy up to the Muslim dictatorship, most Americans don't.

8) Invade Iraq. If Bush the Younger makes the same error his dad made, he won't be re-elected. Period. I won't vote for him and many Republicans won't either. If he continues to cater to the Left at the expense of his constituency, his Presidency is toast. The next time one of his admirals or generals says it's too hard to invade Iraq, fire them and promote the captains and colonels who say it can be done. I know it can be done. I worked on the plans that are on the shelf today to take out the bozo in Baghdad.

9) Do not allow students from dictatorships to attend our flight schools, colleges and universities. When their backward countries mature from within, we can let them in. Not before.

10) Racial profile. Arabs hijacked the planes of 11 September. And we shouldn't pretend otherwise.

11) Inform the Muslim world that we will annihilate their culture and society if they attack us again. When the Muslim kings murdered the Mongol diplomats, the Mongol army annihilated the Muslims of Central Asia. We were prepared to obliterate the peoples of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Are we not prepared to annihilate the Muslim world now? If not, we have relinquished our Nation's place on the World stage and soon, all too soon, this country will be destroyed.

12) Toughen up the Armed Forces: When the body armor, shield and javelin that served the Legions so well in the blazing hot sun of Africa became too heavy to carry in the cool green glades of Gaul, the Empire was lost. Most of our boys and girls in uniform are soft. Teach them to hike all day with 100-pound loads on their backs. Teach them to kill. The Marine Corps used to have its battalions hike 25-miles in full combat gear with no more than a 3% straggler rate. My rifle company did it in 6 hours and twenty-two minutes. All rifle companies hiked to the training area if it was within 10-miles of the barracks. They don't do that today. A battalion might hike 25-miles, but it does not require the grunts to carry all their combat equipment. The flak jackets are usually thrown in the back of a Humvee. Recall Gibbon: The Roman peace was maintained by the terror of Roman Arms.
-- Mike Slater

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