Remember this that I wrote awhile back (all mine) http://www.ivorydome.us/2006/07/14/how-to-win-a-war/
If not for the scorched earth policy of WW2 most jews in Europe would be dead, all of Europe and perhaps the world would be under NAZI or Japanese rule. If not for the same scorched Earth policy much the same would have happened during WW1. If not for the scorched earth policy of Sherman the south would perhaps still be a place of White Supremacy and the Union devided. And so it goes all through history.

You might recall that I had told you before that
I got rid of Dish. I was tired or endless mindless comercials and non stop Lib reprogramming on most channels. That $70. a month I use to spend on Dish I now use to order programming I like from Discovery or The History channel or the Learning channel. The David Barton documentaries we watched before are an other example.

Anyway right now I’m watching, “Engineering An Empire”, http://store.aetv.com/html/product/index.jhtml?id=76847
The success of scortched Earth policies can go either way. It can be the Monster that is Islam or it can be the monster of war that was Patton or Sherman. But you’ll see few examples in history when dealing with with a mentality like Islam where being nice and spending lots of money gets you long term freedom or security. Your welcome to borrow mine if you don’t want to purchase it.

Anyway we should long ago have had total victory in that entire region. We should have taken the oil to cover the costs. Meca and Medina should be ashes. They should be starving in the streets. Their fear of us should be absolute and total. Their should be no doubt in any Islamic mind the hell that will be brought down on any who support any enemy of the West, or Christianity. They should know by now that their God is not the true God. The bastard child of Abraham and the Infestation Ishmael created should be exterminated. All IMHO.

Things are turning around so dramatically in Iraq that even the Associated Press has to admit it:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8SMC1HG0&show_article=1&catnum=0

Nothing succeeds like success. If even the defeatist press is getting on board, maybe there is still some hope for this country.

That being said, I still think that we could have been at this point much earlier if the Bush Administration had planned better in advance for the post-conflict scenario. And unlike you, celtictexan, I refuse to believe that it can only be accomplished by the kind of scorched earth, kill ‘em all and like Allah sort ‘em out strategy that you seem to advocate. As a people, we’re better than that.

We’re still not out of the woods; I remember how my hopeful optimism following the elections in Iraq were dashed by the attack on the Golden Mosque in Samarra. But after four months of declining casualties maybe, just maybe, we’ve turned the corner. I pray this time I’m right.