Last call for 1-11-10

If nothing else the underwear bomber of NW 253 has proven that Americans don't take kindly to being attacked. In fact, he may have swung the pendulum back to the offense and ole mo may be favoring such things as "kill'em all and let God sort'em out."

Now that simplistic saying is not very nice and I would be the first to admit that as of 1-11-10 saying such in the nicer confines of the Internet will instantly earn you a snear and a snark.

But the facts are simply this.

There can be no real security as long as the enemy has the capability and desire to attack us.

The purpose of a war is to remove that capability by destroying the infrastructure surrounding the enemy and and killing enough of them that they lose the desire to attack.

I have speculated before that at some point the country will have to decide if it wants to suffer defeat by a 1000 cuts or go to war using all our technology and forces.

The Left, in general, has wanted to treat this as a criminal justice matter. Do nothing but react to an attack and try to prevent them with "bars on the windows."

The Right, in general, has wanted to treat this as an attack on the country and go war.

The criminal justice approach led to 9/11.

The "go to war" approach of Bush worked only to an extent because we became basically involved in nation building rather than war winning and started using "proportionate response."

We are now back to the criminal justice approach and so far it appears that the enemy sees this as weak.

Worse, the "war winning" strategy is being given only lip service, as it was in Vietnam, and this will only get a lot of US military killed.

Obama should either pull the military back and go on defense or go to a full out war.

He won't because he knows defense won't work and he won't face the political heat that would come with a successful attack within the US. And make no mistake. NW 253 was close. Very close. The actions of the passengers were great, but they would never have had a chance if the detonator had worked as designed.



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