[antimedia] antimedia: While I was on vacation, one of my Marine buddies....

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Posted by antimedia:
While I was on vacation, one of my Marine buddies....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1153153736.shtml


   ....was feeding me links to interesting stuff. The first was [1]this
   Ralph Peters piece on dealing with Islamofacist terrorists.

     THE British military defines experience as the ability to recognize
     a mistake the second time you make it. By that standard, we should
     be very experienced in dealing with captured terrorists, since
     we've made the same mistake again and again.
     Violent Islamist extremists must be killed on the battlefield. Only
     in the rarest cases should they be taken prisoner. Few have serious
     intelligence value. And, once captured, there's no way to dispose
     of them.
     Killing terrorists during a conflict isn't barbaric or immoral - or
     even illegal. We've imposed rules upon ourselves that have no
     historical or judicial precedent. We haven't been stymied by
     others, but by ourselves.

   Peters is absolutely correct, and the law is on his side as well. The
   sooner we get rid of the stifling political correctness that says we
   must always use the utmost caution while the enemy can do whatever he
   wants, the sooner this war will be over.
   Terrorists cannot defeat us on the battlefield. They know that. That's
   why they milk our political correctness weakness for all it's worth.
   Peters closes with this astute observation -- "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."
   How many more innocent civilians will die before the world wakes up?

References

   1. http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/kill__dont_capture_opedcolumnists_ralph_peters.htm