"May God Have Mercy on My Enemies, Because I Won't!"

"May God Have Mercy on My Enemies, Because I won't!"

“The quality of mercy is not strain’d,/ It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven.”–Portia, The Merchant of Venice

Don’t tell that to America’s great generals. Four pithy quotations from four great wartime generals:

“War is hell.”–General William Tecumseh Sherman, (after raining hell on Atlanta in 1864)

“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.” –General George S. Patton (during World War II)

“In war there is no substitute for victory.”–General Douglas MacArthur, Farewell Address to Congress, 1951

“I believe that forgiving [those who aided and abetted the 9/11 terrorists] is God’s function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting.” –General Norman Schwartzkopf (during World War III)

Those words of military wisdom have much in common and much can be learned from them during our ongoing war with Islam.

Since the Allies’ victory over Germany and Japan in World War II, America’s political leaders and America’s military leaders, with some few exceptions including, briefly after 9/11, President George W. Bush and Generals MacArthur and Schartzkopf, have ignored that wisdom. They didn’t forget it, they simply chose to ignore it which explains our stalemate in the Korean War and our defeat in the Vienamese War.

They chose to remember that war is hell but ignored the fact that Sherman had no compunction over executing that hell on his enemy. . .
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