tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post115509998170418730..comments2023-10-31T03:18:26.963-07:00Comments on Great Guys Weblog: Arab RulesBrethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15063508651955739056noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-1156606165550464342006-08-26T08:29:00.000-07:002006-08-26T08:29:00.000-07:00We care about minimising casualties because we're ...We care about minimising casualties because we're in a "policing" psychological state, where we're trying to inflict just enough pain to cause our enemies to decide that discretion is the better part of valor, and we don't want the remaining population to be too upset.<BR/><BR/>The reason that we're not in a "total war" mindset is because the Islamofascists are an annoyance, not an actual threat to any nation, even Israel.<BR/><BR/>Now, personally, my tolerance is gone, and I'm in more of a "kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out" place, but I take bad behavior more personally than do most Americans, or do humans in general, really. My sense is that most people don't really care that much if they personally aren't affected or threatened.<BR/><BR/>I don't think that it's a <I>certainty</I> that an American city will get nuked by terrorists, but there's a high probability of it eventually happening, and should such a thing occur then I expect public opinion to swing solidly behind me, and America will let slip the dogs of war.<BR/><BR/>Amusingly, many of America's enemies, and the domestic American Left, delusionally believe that we've <I>already</I> loosed the dogs, and they're either unimpressed, or have concluded that they can absorb the blows.<BR/>But that's because they're somewhat to totally ignorant of America's full military capabilites. If we really let loose, they'll think that the Gates of Hell have opened.<BR/>Compared to today's capabilites, Dresden and Hiroshima were child's play, and that's <I>without</I> going nuclear.<BR/><BR/>As John Paul Jones famously declared, "Sir, we have not yet <I>begun</I> to fight !"Oroboroushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01710250012500728430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-1155932474849570972006-08-18T13:21:00.000-07:002006-08-18T13:21:00.000-07:00We don't have to play by Arab rules, we could just...We don't have to play by Arab rules, we could just play by our own, the ones we used to play by, which were primarily indifference to causalties on the other side. We should not seek them out, but we should not pay them much heed, either. The Caliphascists may not care about those causalities, either, but their supporters would should they become large enough.Susan's Husbandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02862667802025231163noreply@blogger.com