I've Been Working On My Own Middle East Policy!
Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 12:18PM If we are going to deal with Islamists on a regular basis like we have since 1805 or so, maybe we should use some tactics that may be more on their level of understanding, like Thomas Jefferson did.
If by accident or by mistake some Korans get burned and it results in week long riots and murder of Americans, then apologize like hell about the Korans.
And when it comes to Islamic terrorists killing Americans WE should go nuts.
How about some huge marches on American cities objecting to any slight against and American? (Photo shop the marches, they will never figure it out.)
Open up some silos, arm some fighter jets, float a battleship up next to some coveted object, bomb some power plants, harbors, refineries, dams, or other modern structures real Islamists don’t really need in the first place.
This would not take very long (with a centrally located base) and not put too many of our troops in danger.
Let’s face it. Islamic terrorists are under the illusion they are great warriors. This feeling probably comes from constantly beating up women from the time they are old enough to walk, with no repercussions, by the way.
Think how peaceful the world would be if a woman slapped a Muslim back once in a while. But this will never change so back to how to deal with international punks and bullies.
Short, effective, violence is universally understood.
But in this part of the World tribes and families are where the action is. You make a tribe pay for the sins of its “warriors.” Leave a tribe or family so weak the other chickens in coop pick on it. The “warriors” from the other tribes will jump at the chance to slit the throats of neighbors they have hated much longer than us. Treating Iran or Iraq as a single entity is nothing but problems. These countries, for the most part, were created by victors after wars or by empires.
When you really look at the problems dealing with tribal lunatics who are only connected by various strains of a religion, their same constant enemy, besides us, emerges – Israel.
All the shaggy warriors want to kill Israelis after beating up a girl because Israelis are a formidable enemy with which to prove your questionable manhood.
So why not make a deal?
Jerusalem or Israel for something Islamic warriors might desire – Mecca.
Take a look at Mecca on a map. http://www.sacred-destinations.com/saudi-arabia/mecca-satellite-map.htm
There is not a single thing which protects this chunk of crappy real estate from attack by air, satellite, or sea. Only a small amount of people live there. It is easily isolated and central to the region. Six roads in, six roads out.
Why not have a sensible Middle East policy.
Kill an American, pay a horrible price. No tribe to return to, no family power to hide behind, nowhere to hide in a hole until Marines show up.
Threaten an ally where thousands of Americans live and do business - you jeopardize your sacred city as well. It will be no longer. And Saudi Arabia could care less about Mecca. They treat it like a dump.
Mecca would make a perfect site for a US Air base. And the Islamic warriors would have to travel there to do battle. In fact, they would be obligated to. No neighborhoods for US troops to worry about, no kids or women to hide behind.
Islamists need only pilgrimage towards Mecca with their RPG if they want to fight the Great Satan. And remember terrorists, while you are off fighting, your cousins are back at the tribe beating up your sister.
Reader Comments (6)
You could just leave the Muslims to their own sordid devices to do as they may, and we do likewise in our own sandbox. That would be the American Way, at least according to the wigged ones. Or have we evolved since then into hallowed Neo-Con Warrriors, thrusting forth our chicken hawk breasts in jaunty manner, omniscient in our tinkering with this or that sandbox to build the better sand castle? I don't recall the Holy Constitution spelling out the duty of Americans to fix neolithic cultures, but I've been known to miss and misconstrue the simple meaning of words, now and then.
– C. dog shows Ed the way back to the Yellow Brick Road to Land O' Freedom
I used to read a report to Congress about the Marine raid on the raiders. It was enlightening.
It went something like:
“We tacked into a light wind and set our twenty pound cannons loose on the city. One ball hit a minaret which fell into the city causing much destruction.”
“Captives complained that the “Christian dogs” boarded their ship, and in twenty minutes, killed as many men with their cutlasses and pistols.”
If you read my article I try to connect the dots.
Not much has changed in 200 years. So maybe the same solutions will work.
c.dog jumps to Libertarian conclusions and lands in a history lesson.
Sandbox? Heat? Hmmmmm.
There seems to be no other effective safe way to deal with this MIddle east situation besides what one of the Founding Fathers did. Level a city from a safe distance.
With daisy cutters if need be.
It would be like watching a two huge towers fall down in a city of millions.
They are reasonable people and would understand.
However, it still does not take away from the primary point of net meddling in foreign entanglements – no marines in Saudi Arabia, no reason to bomb buildings in NYC. So that should be the deal: we stay out of your sandbox, you stay out of ours. I bet they would even shake Uncle Sammy's hand on that one, maybe even do a curtsy in their long flowing robes of a midsummer's eve.
Why would anyone want to fritter away their treasure building bombs and paying mercenaries? Is pretending to be Rommel that enticing? Fortress U. S. A. seems much more sane to me, and cheaper, and I am nothing, if not thrifty.
– C. dog recycles proven tactics