“One: You accept that you are in a war. Two: You name the enemy, Islamist terrorists. Three: You get the lawyers off the battlefield […] you accept there will be collateral damage and you do not apologize for it. You do not nation build, you don’t try to hold ground. You go wherever in the world the terrorists are and you kill them, you do your best to exterminate them, and then you leave, and you leave behind smoking ruins and crying widows. If in five or 10 years, they reconstitute and you gotta go back, you go back and do the same thing, and you never, never, never send American troops into a war you don’t mean to win,” Peters said.
Saturday, January 10, 2015
Lt. Col. Peters’ Plan to Fight Jihadists: ‘Leave Behind Smoking Ruins & Crying Widows’
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How many medal bearing officers with mind sets, clarity of vision/scope & battlefield experience similar to Lt. Col. Peters , Lt. col. Allen West or even Gen. Schwarzkopf remain in positions of authority in today's military? Can anyone name one?
No.
And of course, Obama has removed many, many Generals over the past few years.
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