At the risk of being excommunicated from this August Group, I respectfully submit the following thoughts.
Apples and Oranges logic. Hanoi only desired to rule Vietnam. The under laying principle which pervades the Mid-East is Islam, which desires to rule the entire world under an Islamic Caliphate. Failure to understand that pillar of the dominate thought of the area leads other civilized nations to only look at local issues. Their rule of engagement is "convert or die". If any doubt exists in the historical practice, I invite the doubter to look at the history of Islam invasion of India [80,000,000 killed] Persia, Afghanistan, Turkey, etc etc.. all the scene of hundreds of thousands of dead at the hands of the "convert of die" invading armies. Now ISIS continues those practices.. and others. B 52 Linebacker style tactics would not apply against this style of conquest. The English, who spent some 200 years trying to quell the area, ultimately gave up and went home. There is however a quote of English commander which likely does still apply. "If a Muhammedian tells you the sun rises in the East, put your back to the wall, draw your knife, and face West while you wait for his attack"... seems to about sum it up.. To those whom this offends, truth requires no apology, Respectfully, Grant... On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 8:24 PM, archer75--- via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Ohhhhhhhh! You guys are going be so moderated. > Gerry...who has learned his lesson. > > Meade Dillon wrote: > > > I think we should arm the Kurds, bomb Assad and his murderous regime to > > hell ala Linebacker, and let the Kurds have Syria. Give them all the > > support they need to knock ISIS on their can, on the condition that > > Kurdistan (formerly Syria and northern Iraq) sign a peace agreement with > > Israel. Iran and Putin would scream bloody murder, but we could > establish > > another strong ally in the region. > > > > Max Dillon, > > Charleston SC > > > > On Oct 31, 2014 7:24 PM, "Mountain Man via Mercedes" < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > Fast forward 35 years, or whatever. > > > What is the proper approach to the armaments today? i.e. Syria? > > > Do we leave well enough alone? > > > Or is Syria in need of strategic, overwhelming, decisive action such as > > Hanoi? > > > ...yes, waaaay too political for okiebenz, prolly, but input might be > > > interesting to hear from someone who did the Hanoi deed... perhaps? > > > Yeah, the rest of us need to keep our yap shut since none of us did > > > the Hanoi trip. > > > Thanks, Wilton. > > > mao > > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner > has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. > > > > > > ----- > > No virus found in this message. > > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > > Version: 2015.0.5315 / Virus Database: 4189/8487 - Release Date: 10/31/14 > > > > > -- > arche...@embarqmail.com <arche...@embarqmail.com> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner > has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
