Codger on Politics

Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Kill People, Break Things

kill people and break things, no prisoners, no occupation
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/09/08/time_for_an_all-out_attack_on_isis_says_kissinger_123892.html
"" l NEW YORK -- If there were any doubts about whether Henry Kissinger, at the age of 91 and having undergone heart surgery in July, has kept his edge, he dispatches them almost as soon as he sinks into a sofa in his high-rise corner office in midtown Manhattan.
News that a second American journalist has been beheaded in Syria has just broken. But the former US secretary of state — who helped to bring the Vietnam War to an end, initiated a rapprochement with China and led the policy of detente with the Soviet Union — is already clear about what should be done.
"We should launch an all-out attack on them," he says, adding that it should be "of limited duration as a punitive measure". He describes the actions of Isis, also known as Islamic State, as "an insult to our values and to our society" that demands a "very significant retaliation".
"There can't be any debate any more about fighting them."
Under President Barack Obama, he charges, "we have made ourselves bystanders" in the Middle East until now.
"This could be very substantial — on most known targets — and I would not make any distinction between Syria and Iraq. In my view this should have happened already."  ""
The Romans had two modes of war, conquest and retribution. It is time for #2






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