by Chuck58 » Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:14 pm
The problem, as I see it, is that we're trying to fight a war according to rules, such as the Geneva convention. It doesn't apply, it wasn't written with terrorists in mind. They aren't fighting by the same rules.
What we need to do is take a page from the British during their problem in N Ireland and turn loose our Special Ops teams. Being Spec Ops, they wouldn't be tied down by CNN or other MSM embedded reporters to watch over them. Whatever they did would be in the black and would stay unknown for years.
Let them go after the terrorists NO HOLDS BARRED. Fight them the same way they're fighting us. Start using their tactics on them.
The Geneva Convention is for civilized nations and covers only generalities. We aren't fighting a civilized nation and we aren't fighting soldiers.
So, the rule is that there isn't any rule. Until the politicians get that through their thick heads, and that little tidbit of info bounces around long enough to make contact with whatever functioning brain cell it finds, we aren't going to win.
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted men and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
Ernest Hemingway