In what I believe to be one of the best articles against the whole ‘Withdrawl From Iraq’ argument from this country’s (D)efeatist (D)emocrats are waging, Ralph Peters tells us exactly what we would have to do to lose the war against terrorists,
How to Lose a War: by Ralph Peters
QUIT. It’s that simple. There are plenty of more complex ways to lose a war, but none as reliable as just giving up.
Increasingly, quitting looks like the new American Way of War. No matter how great your team, you can’t win the game if you walk off the field at half-time. That’s precisely what the Democratic Party wants America to do in Iraq. Forget the fact that we’ve made remarkable progress under daunting conditions: The Dems are looking to throw the game just to embarrass the Bush administration.
Peters Article found at Righty in a Lefty State
(D)emarkation found at The DANE’s place
And to give us some history as well as some tips on how to win this war, Rivrdog gives us this post,
War and Failure
I fought in a war that resulted in failure. The Viet-nam war. My brothers and I fought hard as individuals and units, but since there never was any cohesive strategy for advancing the battles to the enemy’s stronghold, we fought vicious battles that got us nowhere. Eventually the nation became tired of the fight and caved in to the “war IS failure” advocates, and we were forced to retire from the war, having accomplished nothing except a huge waste of personnel and some tactical evaluations.
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First, we fight an enemy who has proven capabilities for recruitment. The enemy has no shortage of soldiers. Currently, they are sending poorly trained troops into the field, but they are still sending them in an unending stream. This provides the perfect opportunity for the (REDUNDANCY ALERT!) antiwar press to piss and moan that we are sending an unending supply of OUR young men to slaughter. The same press won’t use their supposed knowledge of history to look up and see that no military force in modern times ever suffered 20-1 casualties (on the 20 side) and prevailed in a fight to the finish. Not one. Never happened. We have failed, as the side pursuing the war against Islamic terror, to properly inform our own people (or the rest of the world, most of whom could give a shit less) of our victories, so those under-informed people have begun to believe the antiwar press and disbelieve the leaders of the war.