Simonjester wrote:moda0306 wrote:giving generals more control in our wars,
that one i tend to agree with, the need to go to war is as questionable as it always has been, but the idea politicians can run wars based on political decisions should have gone the way of the dodo after Korea and Vietnam, and yet here we are all these years later watching bush (Afghanistan Iraq ) Obama (Afghanistan Iraq Arab spring Syria etc) making the same mistake, i don't want the US to be "world police man" or the MIC to be getting us into wars... but if you did or do have to fight letting the guys that know how to fight be in charge of the fight, is the way to win and be done with it.. the politically run quagmire war is an invention of the military industrial complex a giant cash machine for them, and nothing more..
The "Total War" alternative can often seem like a better alternative to the "perma sorta-war" we seem to fight, but to me considering the threat (or lack thereof) the only moral solution is to back out. If some goat-herders in Afghanistan are a massive risk to the U.S. worthy of total war, then let's just nuke the whole world now and get it over with...
Kidding of course, but "giving the generals more power" is just playing within establishment goal posts to commit more heinous murders while still accomplishing nothing, or "accomplishing" Imperial aims that weren't even morally sound to begin with.
There is no "win and be done with it" with occupational colonialism. You either kill all of them (perhaps that's what you meant by "win and be done with it"), or accept you're going to constantly be sending teenagers to kill babies in perpetuity.
The conditions that justify total war are very, very limited. The conditions that justify removing someone of life or liberty without due process are also very limited. We should end all of that now. Defend our homeland. Nothing more.
Simonjester wrote:
i agree, but i think i am looking at the flip side of it, the all in war is the only type of war we should fight, and since it is seldom to never called for we should be using that fact to stay the hell out of the messy perma wars/politically run wars we are getting our selfs into. i am in full agreement that our colonialism is a failure and a bad idea to start with. having a worlds strongest military is a sound defense, the tough part is keeping it a defense and not using it as an excuse to fight.