Hi all,
I'm an old WB, pre CK AW grunt that stop flying a few years ago. I still like to read the boards from time to time.
If I remember my history right. In 1972, after the Israeli athletes were killed in Germany during the olympic games. (I was eighteen at the time) The Israeli Mossad, hunted down and killed the terrorist than were involved in that attack. A movie was made about it. Sword of something I believe?
Israel had their revenge. But it had little or no effect on future terrorism.
Killing Bin Laden and every terrorist in the mideast will not bring an end to it. Slow it down, sure. Until the next group takes over. With most of the mideast counties outright supporting these groups. You can be sure it will resurface and continue.
Which brings me to the topic. With WWII, there was only one way to end the war. Remove the Axis governments. It appears to me, that the same thing will have to apply here. The only sure way to remove the save haven for the terrorist, is to remove the goverments that support them. As with Iraq, no matter how much we would like it to, bombing and embargos are not going to accomplish this. It's going to take U.S. ground forces, occupying some or all of these counties.
Nukes at this stage, are not going to be an option. No U.S. president will open that Pandora box first.
Unfortunately, The overall number of standing Army divisions have been greatly reduced over the past ten years. Unlike after Pearl Harbour, I haven't seen any reports of large numbers of young people, enlisting in the Armed Forces. If my scenario for the future hold's up. Will a draft be need to reman divisions that were stood down and for combat replacements?
I would hope we can fight this war with what we have now. But the more I think about it, the less sure I am.
God bless us all.
