Maqqa wrote on Nov 17
th, 2015 at 11:45am:
We have a "holier than thou" attitude when we engage an ever evolving enemy who has no rules and many faces
Do we need to change our rules of engagement?
I am not sure that “holier than thou,” is applicable anymore than “rules of engagement.”
We need to recognise that Islam declared war on the West at least as far back as the Iran Hostage Crisis.
We are at war, and to win a war you have to go for the jugular. Our military in the West cannot police foreign countries. That type of foreign policy is doomed to failure.
When the military is engaged by people in civilian clothes, their assailants must not be allowed to throw up their hands and claim protection under the Geneva Convention. Finish them off on the field.
War is nasty. You cannot win a war by being nice. Do not ask soldiers to beat your enemy, and then burden them with media coverage which is essentially anti-war.
Tactically we need to return to methods of Total War that brought the Axis Powers to their knees in WW2.
Growing Muslim populations in the West will fight ever increasing 3rd Column actions as we have seen. They need to be offered one final chance to accept Western Pluralism and reject religious fanatic doctrines, or be treated as Foreign Combatants out of uniform by sending them to the wall.
I have pointed out our philosophical deficiency concerning the winning of wars in another thread.
There is all but zero chance of this happening. It's completely politically infeasible, as I have mentioned before, and I doubt this strategy would work in any case you cannot use traditional military tactics against asymmetric warfare.
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