"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. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2256)

"In War,There Is No Substitute for Victory"

"In War, There Is No Substitute for Victory"

President Obama has summoned the Commander of US Forces in Afghanistan General Stanley McChrystal to the executive mansion to explain critical and dismissive comments the general and his aides made of top administration and Afghan officials.

See the New York Times version of the McChrystal story here: http://tiny.cc/9n1zp

McChrystal is in a situation very similar to that of MacArthur in Korea. He wants to win the war in Afghanistan but the administration won’t allow him to. He has issued an abject apology to the president for his remarks published in Rolling Stone; he should have resigned. MacArthur apologized to no one; he didn’t believe he was wrong.

Instead of the “limited war” restraints dictated by the Truman administration MacArthur faced in Korea, McChrystal faces the contraints of the “rules of engagement” as determined by the Obama administration.

As commander-in-chief, Obama has every right . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1748)