Kill The Enemy. What A Concept.

by Ralph Peters

"With Iraqi society decomposing - or, at best, reverting to a medieval state with cell phones - the debate in Washington over whether to try to save the day by deploying more troops or withdrawing some is of secondary relevance.

What really matters is what our forces are ordered - and permitted - to do. With political correctness permeating our government and even the upper echelons of the military, we never tried the one technique that has a solid track record of defeating insurgents if applied consistently: the rigorous imposition of public order.

That means killing the bad guys. Not winning their hearts and minds, placating them or bringing them into the government. Killing them.

If you're not willing to lay down a rule that any Iraqi or foreign terrorist masquerading as a security official or military member will be shot, you can't win. And that's just one example of the type of sternness this sort of fight requires.

With the situation in Iraq deteriorating daily, sending more troops would simply offer our enemies more targets - unless we decided to use our soldiers and Marines for the primary purpose for which they exist: To fight."

No, Ralph. Being nearly AS politically correct as those who'd hand a young Marine a pushboom instead of a deadly weapon doesn't help matters. Once you dilute, it opens the door for everyone to do so with various degrees of sugar coating the truth.

Fighting is for schmucks. Boxers fight. Spouses fight. Even politicians. Marines kill. The enemy needs to be dead, not coddled, and yes, all of this winning hearts and minds folderol is nonsense.

At least Ralph is on the right track, so he gets a pass for talking as if he were addressing The Little Lady's Of Proper Etiquette.