CIVILIAN PROTECTION POLICY DOES NOT APPLY TO SYRIA

CIVILIAN PROTECTION POLICY DOES NOT APPLY TO SYRIA

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Idiotic, the Obama administration and the war mongering Pentagon has finally went completely over the edge, “officials say U.S. policy requiring ‘near certainty’ civilians won’t be hit does not apply to current mission against ISIL.” Talk about an edict that’ll push the U.S. to…..well, the Indian wars in the countries old west when the only good Indian was a dead Indian.

 

Who in hell is running this war anyways, and exactly how much crap can we heap on our perceived enemies, before we anger 2.8 billion Muslims, and they actually become our enemies? I have no idea who is advising the president and his cabinet, but cap whatever it is the guys drinking, I want a shot of that stuff.

 

This past January, President Obama, barred drone strikes unless there is “near certainty” that they would not cause civilian deaths. The president has been criticized for his administration’s campaign of drone strikes…..which have killed at least 2,400 people, of which many have been civilians in countries including Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia.

 

Now imagine if the drone strikes had been unbridled, with no restrictions, and sensitivity for civilian safety, that above figure of 2,400 would probably have either doubled or tripled, and the world would have been aghast at the deaths and injuries.

 

“The ruthless bombing from the air of civilians in unfortified centers of population…..has sickened the hearts of every civilized man and woman, and has profoundly shocked the conscience of humanity…..I am therefore addressing this urgent appeal to every government which may be engaged in hostilities publicly to affirm its determination that its armed forces shall in no event, and under no circumstances, undertake the bombardment from the air of civilian population.” Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1939.

 

OBLITERATION FROM THE AIR

Since the invention of air flight, man has dreamed of air supremacy, and the current bombing mission by the United States and its coalition of the willing achieved total air dominance before a single bomb was dropped, and before a single jet bomber left the tarmac…..ISIS or ISIL doesn’t have an air force, and although I don’t know for sure, I’m still pretty sure that they don’t have much in the way of ground to air defense. So for coalition forces, it’s kind of like shooting fish in a barrel.

 

In the recent wars in the Middle East, Iraq (number one and number two), Afghanistan, Libya, and now Syria, air power, and air defense has been pretty much non-existent. To my way of thinking, these air wars in the Middle East is like twenty guys in the woods driving deer to where shooters are perched on some high ground, and as the deer emerge from the forest, the hunters on the ridge pick them off one by one.

 

Near the end of World War II the United States and her allies had achieved air superiority, and of course everybody knows what happened in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, two bombs dropped within days of one another took the lives of (a minimum) of 90,000 people in Hiroshima and 39,000 in Nagasaki. Of course the numbers of dead can be debated until the end of time, but when approximately 129,000 people perish, the numbers are sobering…..it’d be like taking the lives of every single Packers fan in the city of Green Bay.

There was a hatred of the Japanese for the atrocity of the attack on Pear Harbor in December of 1941, and that hatred was justified, given the casualties suffered on that Sunday morning on December 7. Without a doubt, the United States took the Japanese military, the political officials, the Emperor, Hirohito, and the civilian population to task…..but to bomb to death as many as 246,000 civilians in just two bombings seems a bit…..over the top, at least to me.

 

Between 1942 and 1945, when the allies pretty much had locked up the skies over Europe and the Pacific, air bombings took the lives of more than 500,000 civilians. What’s your point one might ask me, well gee fella, I’m damned glad you asked…..cause you know I’ve got a pat answer for you; “it seems that in every war, the good guys blend into being the bad guys, want proof, well read the statistics two lines up!

 

I DO NOT CARE WHAT GOVERNMENT SAYS

I simply do not care what the president says, or the Pentagon, or any newscaster; I do not believe that whatever threat is perceived with regards to terrorism in the Middle East coming to the United States, to me, it simply doesn’t make any sense. These terrorists (yes I believe that there are terrorists) have all that they can handle right in their own back yards; they really aren’t equipped to wage war of any consequence here in the United States.

 

Sure September 11, 2001 was a black day in the history of the United States, and the lives lost were a tragedy…..but all of lives lost were accomplished in just three attacks…..and not one life has been lost sense…..a pretty good record.

 

Yet we continue to make war against these people on their soil…..so they can’t come to America and wage a terrorist type war. It’s what the media, the president, the Pentagon, and many retired generals would have us believe…..kind of like that movie, Starship Troopers, when the enemy is a huge bug and the war will take decades to win.

 

For the United States to indiscriminately bomb targets designed as enemy strongholds with no regard for civilians is foolharded larceny, what it will accomplish will be the recruitment of terrorist membership and strengthen the resolve with regards to the mission.

 

One final point that I’d like to take issue with…..U.S. intelligence, it doesn’t matter from where it comes, the United States has a horrible track record in the intelligence gathering efforts, and if I had to bet my life on its accuracy…..I wouldn’t.   

 

HAVE A NICE DAY!