Following ISIS to the Gates of Hell is Not Enough - We Have to Go to Hell
We have read the strong words from Vice President Joe Biden in response to the recent beheadings by ISIS promising, "We will follow them to the gates of hell until they are brought to justice, because hell is where they will reside." But then President Obama took all the steam out of that ominous warning by adding that it would require the efforts of an international coalition.
Whaaaa? We are going to follow ISIS to the gates of hell ... but only if we can get other countries to join us on the ride?
I remember when I was a child and an empty threat was offered - we would simply respond, "Yeah? You and what army?"
But this is how Obama operates: he says one thing but adds an excusatory disclaimer in small print: "You can keep your doctor/hospital/policy ... ... ... but only if he/they/it offers the coverage we deem necessary."
And so we have: "We will follow them to the gates of hell ... ... ... but only if we can get a coalition of other nations to join us."
As a businessman I have long ago learned that weak or slow decision making can destroy a company. I believe weak or slow decision making can likewise destroy a country. In the photo above we see Obama taking a decisive stroke of action during the ISIS crisis.
The weak decisions made by European nations in the 1930s almost destroyed them in the 1940s. It was only when the US decided not only to go to the gates of hell but beyond that enabled them to destroy Nazi Germany. We had to be as vicious and savage as the enemy to utterly defeat them. When the US carpet-bombed German cities, we killed hundreds of thousands of women and children. The following photo shows 97% of the city of Wesel destroyed.
The city of Wesel, devastated by Allied bombing in preparation for the crossing of the Rhine on 22-23 March 1945.
Photo Credit: USAAF
Concern over a few Muslim lives is what directly led to the murder of nearly 3,000 Americans on 9/11. Here is former President Bill Clinton speaking to a group of Australian businessmen on 10 September 2001 (yes, the day before the savage and vicious attack on the WTC):
CBS News, 31 Jul 2014, Bill Clinton: "I could have killed" Osama bin Laden
"I'm just saying, you know, if I were Osama bin Laden - he's a very smart guy, I've spent a lot of time thinking about him - and I nearly got him once," said Clinton, who'd departed the White House earlier that year. "I nearly got him. And I could have killed him, but I would have to destroy a little town called Kandahar in Afghanistan and kill 300 innocent women and children, and then I would have been no better than him. And so I didn't do it."
How nice, how civilized, how thoughtful. And what a monumental blunder. I wonder if the notion that we are not like our enemy gives comfort to all the family and friends of those who perished on that day.
If we truly want to destroy ISIS, forget about the gates of Hell, we need to go deep into Hell and utterly destroy all the members of ISIS, their families (who may want retribution), their friends, their pets, their former teachers, their imams, the houses they live in, the streets they walk on and the cities they control.
They certainly are intent on doing that to us.
As long as cowards like Obama run our country we will not prevail against our enemies; as I wrote in Fighting to Win Wars;
Unfortunately the modern world we live in has been infected with pussy-disease; the notion that we can fight faint-heartedly and hope the enemy surrenders when they see how nice we are. It is the same disease with which Obama is infected. If only we could let our enemy know that we don't wish to fight, that we're willing to negotiate, then we can have true peace.
