ABikerSailor
Diamond Member
It seems that a lot of Republicans currently think that our military is weak, has been decimated, and isn't being allowed to fight the terrorists.
They then say that Eisenhower or Patton would have been able to beat ISIL in a short amount of time.
Yeah.................but back in WWII, they weren't constrained by things like the Geneva Conventions, which came about AFTER WWII, because of all the really horrific things that had gone on, like the Dresden bombing (which was basically carpet bombing to get a few enemy at the cost of many innocent civilian lives).
But, RumsFAILED said back before the Iraq war that "you go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you wished you had".
And, the war that ISIL is fighting isn't anything like the conventional warfare of old, it's more like the guerrilla warfare that was done during Viet Nam.
They then say that Eisenhower or Patton would have been able to beat ISIL in a short amount of time.
Yeah.................but back in WWII, they weren't constrained by things like the Geneva Conventions, which came about AFTER WWII, because of all the really horrific things that had gone on, like the Dresden bombing (which was basically carpet bombing to get a few enemy at the cost of many innocent civilian lives).
But, RumsFAILED said back before the Iraq war that "you go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you wished you had".
And, the war that ISIL is fighting isn't anything like the conventional warfare of old, it's more like the guerrilla warfare that was done during Viet Nam.