Let's Win This One

Emperor Misha goes on a righteous rant here, which has a definite language alert in effect. But hey, rough language is sometimes necessary, especially when defending rough and sometimes unpopular decision. I am with the Emperor on this one...either we should take the gloves off and beat these ululating savages into submission or death (whichever comes first), or we should let them fight out their centuries old religious grievances on their own and then deal with the "winner" of that struggle. I've excerpted his rant below, and all emphasis is mine, but do read it all.

"Why (should we win)? Because we’re in it, and that’s what we do. We don’t enter fights to lose them, we don’t enter fights to look for “an honorable way out”, we enter fights to win them, dammit, and it’s pissing me off royally to see some quarters claiming to be on our side looking for “peace with honor.”

There’s only ONE sort of “peace with honor”, and that’s the kind of peace where you’re the one dictating the conditions for it and the other side is on his knees asking you to please don’t shoot him in the face. Negotiated peace doesn’t count for squat. It only means that the other side will laugh at you and go back to rearm during the ceasefire, working towards kicking you in the nuts when you least expect it. Peace with honor is when your erstwhile opponent is crawling in the dust, begging you not to hurt him anymore and offering to lick the sweat off of your scrotum if only you’ll quit kicking him in the fuc*ing face. ...

Until we can get out of our Oprah-fied ideas about the subhuman slime we’re fighting being anything more than dirt, we’re fuc*ed. We didn’t pick this damn fight, it was thrown in our general direction, and it’s up to the ululating goat herders who were daft enough to pick it to say “uncle.” They could’ve just minded their own fuc*ing business and left us the fu*k alone and they wouldn’t be facing the monumental ass-kicking that these United States are capable of delivering to those dumb enough to ask for it. I don't feel the least bit sorry for them. ...

You think this nation was built on the back of people talking about compromise and agonizing endlessly about “rights” not being respected? I hate to fucking break it to you, but it wasn’t. I know you don’t like to hear it, but your comfortable lives in the suburbs with your nice houses and air conditioned SUVs wouldn’t even be possible if it hadn’t been for rough men making rough choices on your behalfs. But perhaps you’d like it better if you were still slogging it out from day to day in log cabins while trying to fend off the locals with front loaders? ...

As long as there’s somebody in this world who has something that somebody else wants, there’ll be wars. It’s uncomfortable, but it’s the truth, and the only way to keep that bastard from taking away what’s yours is to kick him in the fucking nuts until he loses interest in your possessions because the pain in his scrotum distracts him from chopping your empty head off. Deal with it, or do us all a favor by killing yourselves, because I sure as Hell am not going to join your suicide party."