Comments on: Owning Every Single Bullet?

By: spencer

spencer — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:42:10 +0000

A soldiers objective, as expressed so well by General Patton, is to try and make the other SOB to die for his country.

The objective of a police force is to prevent crime. For the police shooting and killing are often of little value and sometimes counterproductive in achieving their objective.

Given this massive difference I fail to see why police refraining from shooting criminals offers an example for the military.

By: DL

DL — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:21:59 +0000

Sherman's Atlanta - Dresden and London burning - Hiroshima - World trade Center

It is the history of man to try to humble the other side by bringing the terror of war to his home.

Would that mankind could be above all that but...

The left could use a better understanding of that before they negotiate us to death.

By: steve

steve — Fri, 30 May 2008 00:16:24 +0000

What we did in the past was fire on those guys hidden amongst the populace. The problem was that for every bad guy killed we created 5 new ones. The COIN strategy we now employ recognizes this. If you want to go back to the old bombs away, kill em all feel free. Just do it with your own troops and with your own life on the line.

Steve

By: John425

John425 — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:19:59 +0000

"To the extent that we’re killing too many innocents, it’s not because of trigger-happy riflemen but because of a fondness for shooting from a safe distance using missiles and bombs."

Or (in considering shifting the blame away from US troops)... the enemy has a predilection for engaging our troops while hiding in civilian population centers.

By: Bithead

Bithead — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:17:03 +0000

This would seem counterindicative, if we link the lower number of rounds fired today, to the increases in violent behavior on the part of the population.