The Day of Infamy
Today is the anniversary of the attack by the Empire of Japan on Pearl Harbor. The Japanese sought to destroy the United State`s Pacific Fleet and invade California in an effort to wrest dominion over the Pacific from America and build a Japanese colonial empire.
They, like the modern Jihadists, believed America was weak, a paper tiger who would crumble at the first major defeat. They, like our Islamic friends, were ruthless and would fight to the death. They, like the terrorists, used themselves as human missiles to die in a glorious cause of killing Americans. They hid in jungles and among the populace. It was said we couldn`t beat these fanatical foreigners.
But we did beat them, because Americans were furious about this attack on our fleet, and were prepared to do whatever it took to achieve victory. There was no talk about ``winning Japanese hearts and minds``, or of leaving a moderate footprint among locals; we fought an all-out war with victory the only option. Nobody tried to pull these dirty tricks against our troops because they knew the Wrath of the Lord would decend upon them. We were quite magnanimous, but only AFTER we beat the tar out of them.
That is how wars are won-through a sense of defeat by the enemy. If you don`t first defeat them, they will keep fighting you. You cannot half-win a war; the war will continue. Americans understood this in 1941, while they don`t seem to grasp the concept today. There was no option for conditional surrender on the table.
Of course, the Japanese had the Emperor, whom they worshipped as semi-divine, come forth and command a cessation of hostilities. Islam is less centralized, but something of this sort can occur; Imams and Ayatollahs can come to their senses and issue Fatwas. It just takes convincing them-and they will only be convinced if they see ruin ahead for themselves if they fail to act. We should have been convincing them that their Jihad will destroy them, but we`ve been too busy worrying about world opinion and ``winning hearts and minds``; you can win hearts and minds all you like after you win militarily. Americans have forgotten this basic of warfare.
Today we should honor those brave men (and women) who fought for their families, their friends, their homelands, and their way of life against tyrannical forces which sought our destruction. We should honor those who are doing this for us this very day in those awful hellholes of Afghanistan and Iraq. And we should remember that the greatest honor we can give the citizen-soldiers who bled and died so we could be free is to preserve what they suffered for, and not let our childishness and sloth get the better of us. We cannot let the sacrifices made by our Fathers slip away.
God bless them all!
They, like the modern Jihadists, believed America was weak, a paper tiger who would crumble at the first major defeat. They, like our Islamic friends, were ruthless and would fight to the death. They, like the terrorists, used themselves as human missiles to die in a glorious cause of killing Americans. They hid in jungles and among the populace. It was said we couldn`t beat these fanatical foreigners.
But we did beat them, because Americans were furious about this attack on our fleet, and were prepared to do whatever it took to achieve victory. There was no talk about ``winning Japanese hearts and minds``, or of leaving a moderate footprint among locals; we fought an all-out war with victory the only option. Nobody tried to pull these dirty tricks against our troops because they knew the Wrath of the Lord would decend upon them. We were quite magnanimous, but only AFTER we beat the tar out of them.
That is how wars are won-through a sense of defeat by the enemy. If you don`t first defeat them, they will keep fighting you. You cannot half-win a war; the war will continue. Americans understood this in 1941, while they don`t seem to grasp the concept today. There was no option for conditional surrender on the table.
Of course, the Japanese had the Emperor, whom they worshipped as semi-divine, come forth and command a cessation of hostilities. Islam is less centralized, but something of this sort can occur; Imams and Ayatollahs can come to their senses and issue Fatwas. It just takes convincing them-and they will only be convinced if they see ruin ahead for themselves if they fail to act. We should have been convincing them that their Jihad will destroy them, but we`ve been too busy worrying about world opinion and ``winning hearts and minds``; you can win hearts and minds all you like after you win militarily. Americans have forgotten this basic of warfare.
Today we should honor those brave men (and women) who fought for their families, their friends, their homelands, and their way of life against tyrannical forces which sought our destruction. We should honor those who are doing this for us this very day in those awful hellholes of Afghanistan and Iraq. And we should remember that the greatest honor we can give the citizen-soldiers who bled and died so we could be free is to preserve what they suffered for, and not let our childishness and sloth get the better of us. We cannot let the sacrifices made by our Fathers slip away.
God bless them all!
posted by Timothy Birdnow | 5:58 AM
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