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This isn't really about winning hearts and minds anyway. I'd like someone to please point out a single example of militarized insurgancy that has been defeated via extreme violence. Just one, please...if you can.
We can drop bombs 24/7, but if our actions just further radicalize Islam and make more terror recruits, what's the point?
Are you prepared to build a wall around the United States? because that's what it's going to take. There are lessons to be learned from Palestine, Chechnya, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq etc...lessons that are not being heeded.
The well travelled Navy Chief made an interesting observation about Indonesia being much more friendly under a dictatorship, and less friendly as a democracy. This seems counter to what our President keeps telling us, that they just hate us for our freedoms.
For sure we need to shed blood when necessary, but there is another side to the solution that is completely being overlooked.
-spence
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