History tends to repeat.
We've been through this time before. Terrorism on the upswing. European powers refusing to act. Middle Eastern powers refusing to act. Everyone looking to the US to do...something.
Well one time we tried to "do something" under the banner of the UN.
Let me introduce you to the Marine Corps Colonel no one talks about. Meet Colonel William R Higgins. A short blurb from Wikipedia (make sure to read it all).
On February 17, 1988, Higgins disappeared while serving as the Chief, Observer Group Lebanon and Senior Military Observer, United Nations Military Observer Group, United Nations Truce Supervision Organization. Higgins was driving alone on the coastal highway between Tyre and Naqoura in southern Lebanon, returning from a meeting with a local leader of the Amal movement, when he was pulled from his vehicle by armed men.[2][3] He had been abducted by the Lebanese group Hezbollah.[4] During his captivity, he was interrogated and tortured.[1]I never met the guy, but reputation is that he was solid across the board.
As a reaction to his abduction, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 618, demanding his release. A year and a half after his abduction, images of his body, hung by the neck, were televised around the world from a videotape released by his captors. The exact date of Colonel Higgins' murder is uncertain; he was declared dead on July 6, 1990. Finally, on 23 December 1991, his remains were recovered by the late Major Jens Nielsen (Royal Danish Army) attached to the United Nations Observation Group Beirut.[5] His remains had been "...dumped beside a mosque near a south Beirut hospital." [6] He was interred atQuantico National Cemetery on December 30, 1991.
Do you get the force of connection with his capture? While returning from a meeting he was abducted? Did you catch the name of the organization that tortured and killed him? Hezbollah.
The only thing that will solve the mess in the Middle East is round the clock B-52 raids with diversions to terrorist camps in Africa if targets can't be found.
Its past time to settle the score and put these animals back in their cages. Savages only respect strength and violence. We've played the "reasonable" man card for far too long. Time to get Medieval with these bastards.
What the U.S., as a whole, fails to realize is that the radical factions of Islam have been at war with us for over 30 years. I place the first shot in this war as the Marine Barracks bombing in Beruit in 1983. I saw my Dad, a retired Marine Corps Major, cry that night.
ReplyDeleteThere may have been earlier attacks but that one sticks out. Col Higgins is another shot, embassies in Tanzania and Nigeria, USS Cole, Achille Lauro, 1st attempt at the World Trade Towers, and 9/11...........
They are at war....the U.S. is at the mall.
that is the best short history of the war on terrorism that i've heard....and the America at the mall thought is spot on too.
Deletewe're engaged in a generational war because leadership doesn't have the balls to end this once and for all. no nation building, no equivocation, no mercy. just bomb them back to the time they think they're living in and be done with it.
This may be interesting for you, Sol:
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I was in the Fleet with a Sergeant that served with him. He was a good man, from what I heard.
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