Wasting Time With Alex

More proof PC sucks..

Recently I got to talking with several people about how PC standards and the fact that we have the rabid anti-war crowds dictate to us how wars have to be fought have resulted in a lot more suffering for the innocents - and usually this PC crap was instituted to supposedly limit the suffering of innocents - and sever prolonged conflicts, often low level ones that drag on for decades. The ROEs we use in Iraq , combined of course with a heft dose of propaganda favorable to the enemy by our own anti-American/anti-war Western media, have severely limited our ability to do the most important thing in war - break the enemy’s morale and will to fight on - and have allowed the enemy to keep a totally irrelevant & ineffective campaign of indiscriminate bombings which do nothing but feed the deranged idiots that hate the US, Bush, and war with their campaign to pretend the war is a lost cause. All in the hope that this eventually will break the morale & will of the people and thus forces the politicians to withdraw a military they can never defeat. In the mean time civilians and the very innocents we are supposed to protect with these weakened and ineffective ROEs are murdered in mass because they are easier to get to than the troops. Troops that also fight back and practically always kill anyone stupid enough to come up against them.

Many do not know that these kinds of crazy Islamic fanatics causing trouble isn’t a new thing. In the days of the British Empire every once in a while these fanatics would rise out of the sand & resort to this very tactic of indiscriminate violence directed at civilians in the hopes of frightening the locals into backing their movement and paralyzing any military force able to respond. These barbaric events never worked because British troops would usually find out where the trouble makers were hiding or operating from, go there in force, and basically wipe out everyone. That lesson stuck and kept those that had first hand knowledge of the fate of rabble rousers from repeating the same mistakes guaranteeing order for a few decades. Today we would crucify anyone that proposed we deal with the rise of this radicalized and destructive entity by wiping out anyone involved, lending support to it, or not opposing it because of lash back from the PC crowd. Consequently we have it spreading everywhere and countless innocents dying, with numbers more slated to die in vain, from it. And they will continue to die in dribs & drabs with no end in sight. Well there would be an end of news coverage as soon as the MSM figured it had managed to reach it’s political objective to lull people into thinking this was done with, but that doesn’t mean the tragic deaths will not continue because of our lack of will to act.

Anyway, the proof is in the pudding as another similar story about how PC rules have made it impossible to end the problem of piracy in Somalia and thus condemned the poor people of Somalia to a long, slow & drawn out death. But hey, if it is not in the news it can’t be important or worth thinking about.

UPDATE: Well it seems I am not alone in believing & remembering that making sure the other side understands you will not react with “appropriate force” but will strike back massively and with the intent to cripple & destroy, like we told the USSR we would do during the 5 decades of the Cold War and which I consider to be the main reason we prevented a direct military conflict that would have gone nuclear between the two super powers, if attacked works as Walter Williams points out here. True he is indicating this would be the response after we are attacked and not directly tied to using brutal force while fighting, but the point is that the deterrence lies in the fact that the result will be a massive response with devastating consequences.

Anyone recall that old Star Trek episode where Kirk told the two planets that had been at war for decades and were sending people to be zapped, because it was more humane not to really drop nukes on each other and devastate each other’s societies, every time a simulated attack happened that he would rain nuclear fire on them for real if they didn’t end that idiocy? The moral of that show still stands. Make war PC & nice, and people will be much more inclined to condone, want it, and not fear it. Make it ugly and make it have devastating consequences, and I guarantee you it will happen less often. Yeah, even radicalized nut jobs with a death wish would lose their desire to fight if they knew they would be vaporized and their movement to enslave the peoples of the world under their ideology crushed with brutal force.