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allow me to make a comparison:

When I was I young paramedic student we used to joke about "rhythms" on the cardiac monitor during ACLS training...
...when we didn't have an immediate answer we used to say "shock it"
Instructor: what rhythm is it?
Student: dont know
Instructor: then why are you gonna shock it?
Student: maybe it will turn into something I know how to treat- right now I am clueless and the patient is dying



Now fast forward to OEF...
maybe we cant "kill our way out of this" BUT;
the current paramedic is clueless and dont know how to treat what is showing on the monitor
...meanwhile bad guys are shooting at us because we are to determined to identify the "rhythm" showing on the monitor before we take action.

Here is the catch:
-the "paramedic" holding the paddles in this scenario doesn't have the slightest idea how to read a heart monitor and the fucking patient is dying.
Now maybe we cant kill our way "out" of the problem, but in this case the only thing our opponents understand is killing.
...and killing these fuckers has a cathartic effect. Kill enough of these cocksuckers and I promise we will get a "rhythm" we can recognize:
compliance

Once you have killed enough bad guys to get something that resembles compliance you can begin to talk about humane diplomacy. Instead of watching radical Islamic fascists set off bombs in front of their own Mosques and police stations.

...and if that doesn't work, well like I said, there is a cathartic release in shooting at these fuckers.
Watching a 500 pounder land on the ridge line were the gunfire is coming from is equally cathartic... and actually quite arousing if you ask me.

If we are going to continue to coddle our enemy and pretend that his religion has nothing to do with the problem at hand, then I recommend we just do what no one wants to say out loud:

lets quit and go home - after all we have already stated "it isn't about victory" and we don't want to "kill our way out" and we certainly have made it clear that while our enemy seems to be almost exclusively radical islamo-fascists; we are more than willing to declare that we are most certainly NOT at war with the peace loving people that practice radical islamo-fascism. Our beef is with a small percentage of normal folk that are actually just a law enforcement problem.

...as the current administration has stated in the past "we won"
cool, I got it, new sheriff in town and all that jazz...
so to quote an angry NCO from my youth:
"what are you gonna do now PL?"

...anyway rant mode deactivated
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