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UNDER
GOD AND DEMOCRACY
An
addition by the Congress in 1964 to the pledge of allegiance adds
the words UNDER GOD.
An American Citizen challenged the Constitutionality of adding the
words UNDER GOD to the Pledge of allegiance and the Court thought
he was right and stipulated that the words UNDER GODS in the
pledge of Allegiance were unconstitutional but the Judgement will
be appealed.
It has become a very controversial and sensitive subject with all
members of the Senate.
Let's try to clarify the issue.
Which GOD the UNDER
GOD amendment refers to
Is it the GOD of the Jews?
Is it the GOD of all the Muslims?
Is it one of the GODS of the multi deists religions
such as Hinduism
Is it one of the GODS that animist religions
believe lives in the form of animals or plants.
Is it the GODS of the Protestants.
Is it the GODS of the Catholics
Is it the GOD of the fundamentalists Muslims
who preach the killing of infidels and particularly America infidels.
We cannot but be surprised at the screaming posturing negative reaction
of the American leadership in its entirety, President Bush , the
whole senate without exception and the rest of the leadership. Not
one voice from the leadership was discordant. They all vowed to
fight and overturn a decision of a California court who judged the
words " UNDER GOD " in the pledge of Allegiance UNCONSTITUTIONAL
. The force and unanimity of the Leadership outrage was almost unbelievable
if you consider the American leadership an educated body.
What do the three most important documents
in American History. The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution
and the Bill of Right tell the American people about religion?
First: nowhere in any of these documents there is
a mention of the obligation for the citizen to be
UNDER GOD or that the worship of God or that an acknowledgement
of God is mandatory to be a citizen of the USA.
It is a vibrant contrast with some Islamic government
such as Iran as well as many other and specifically the Teleban
Government in Afghanistan which whom we went to war after they committed
IN THE NAME OF GOD a devastating act of violence against the USA.
The actual terrorism against the USA is based on
Faith and on following the rules of GOD
It bears a striking similarity with the wars of religions and the
crusades with many acts of terrors and massacres of Civilians almost
non stop during a long period of time which encompass at least
the 8th, 9th,10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th,15th, centuries among
others.
The founding fathers these extraordinary men who
gave birth to the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA were men of great knowledge,
great culture and great intelligence and for them who not so long
ago could read or hear stories from descendants how atrocious it
was to be massacred or prosecuted for religious or non religious
belief by a Government supporting ONLY one religion, it was their
duty to insure freedom of religion and they were very strong about
that .
They added the first Amendment in 1791 about religion
to the constitution which is now part of the constitution but was
known as part of the Bill of Rights.
What is the wording of the first amendment?
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment
of religion "
That is pretty clear.
Congress in the Mc Carthy era in 1954 added the
world UNDER GOD to the original pledge of Allegiance;
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United
State of America and to the Republic for which it stands: One nation
UNDER GOD, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Against precisely the First amendment Congress
made a law respecting an establishment of religion.
THE AMAZING FACT IS THAT NOBODY CHALLENGED THE "
UNDER GOD" LAW SOONER.
The founding fathers being a generation marked by
account of religious repression or massacre worded the first amendment
in order to extricate FOR EVER the USA from religious repression.
The most important effect is Absolute Religious Freedom.
It is an enormous strengthening of religion.
It is pretty obvious that the more religious you
are, the more you cherish your religion the more you should
cherish the First Amendment in order to be able to practice the
religion you favor or to be free not to follow any religion. The
vast majority of American people regards themselves as religious
people of different religions ( more than 90%). they should
sponsor strongly freedom of religion and the application of the
first amendment and of course the leadership of the country should
be strongly behind the First amendment but they are not.
Why would the leaders of the USA, the Whole congress
and the President of the USA push to keep the worlds UNDER GOD ,
worlds that were not part of the original Constitution written by
the founding fathers but added by a congress in the Mc Carthy era
which was afraid of communism and composed to say the least of unsavory,
and mediocre people.
Basically you can ask yourself a few questions
Do I trust more the leadership and principle
of the founding fathers such as Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas
Jefferson or do I trust more the leadership and principle of Senator
Mc Carthy?
Do I want to accept that the Government
force me,my children or my grand children to be outcasts or pledge
that I can worship one GOD only.
Do I want to go back to the ERA ,one thousand
year ago when Religion was the main cause of war and Massacre.
Do I believe that Democracy brought progress
by giving freedom of religion and eliminating religious massacre.
The Talibans and the Fundamentalist Islamists are
trying to pull us into a war based on religion and the American
leadership is answering YES lets make our country the same kind
of country that imposes religious law. Let us forget the advance
that DEMOCRACY with its Freedom of Religion brought to the world.
Let us forget the wisdom of the Founding fathers and let us base
our leadership on an unconstitutional law passed by a congress with
Mc Carthy supporters.
That is what the American leadership is doing. Leading the
American people without explaining to them the depth of the first
amendment and the enormous progress brought by DEMOCRACY
Because of a failure of leadership:
These people are not even able or willing to look at the big picture
which was the gigantic quality of the founding fathers.
They refuse to deeply understand and study the Constitution
using only bit and pieces that suit their purpose this very day.
How can these mediocre leaders fight for the Constitution and inform
the Citizens about the Constitution when their only motto could
be " Blow with the wind and take the easiest path"
Jully 9th 2002
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THE
DUNGEON OR THE DEATH
OF THE 6th AMENDMENT
What was a Dungeon?
In the times of the Kings before Democracy, Kings
send prisoners they did not want to hear about and did not want
them to go through any process of law or trial directly to a dungeon.
A Dungeon was generally the most fortified tower in a castle which
beside its use as defense in case of attack often doubled as a prison
with only a couple of cells
These cells were generally build without windows, without any possibility
for the prisoner to communicate with any outside person. The prisoner
was held for long period of time without any hope to plead his case
to anybody. Those where the times before DEMOCRACY.
Of course one of the first actions the Founding
fathers establishing a DEMOCRACY took was to prevent such secret
imprisonment where no trial and even no communication was allowed
for the prisoner.
It is in the Sixth Amendment of
the Constitution and it reads:
In all criminal prosecution, the accused
shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial
jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been
committed,(.....) and to have the assistance of counsel for his
defense.
Jose Padilla an American Citizen was arrested on
American soil on suspicion of having plans to plant a bomb
and was kept in a modern Dungeon without communication
with anybody, no contact with his lawyer, no right to a speedy trial,
none of the Rights written in the Constitution
Timothy Mc Veil an American Citizen was arrested
on American soil on suspicion oh having planted a bomb and further
more very successfully murdering more than a hundred American Citizens
which is a hundred time worse than what Jose Padilla did.
How come the American government which on election
day swore to respect and uphold the Constitution which stipulates
that All citizens are equal facing the law and then apply one set
of laws for an American Citizen and then apply a cooked up set of
unconstitutional laws to another American Citizen.
The American Government is playing with words. This
kind of deception was one of the main specialty of Communist Governments.
The most striking example was naming most of the Eastern European
Communist countries " DEMOCRATIC" despite the fact that
they were the worst of tyrannies. One example among many; East Germany:
German Democratic Republic: and nothing was Democratic
in this Republic.
The American Government and law enforcement agents
are using the same deception playing with words.
Enemy combatant
Why not make different categories of people being
arrested to attempt to continually by pass the Constitution,
The actual government could add to the label of Enemy combatant;
the followings
Opponent fighter
Adversary striker
Antagonist aggressor
Hostile belligerent.
For the actual government it is not the Constitution
that count but it is playing with labels that has become important.
If you are in a Super market wher somebody had switched
around the labels on the cans of Pears and the cans of Pickle would
you upon tasting them acknowledge that the products in the can labeled
Pears with pickle inside taste like pears or would you call it a
fraud?
The Founding fathers who had witnessed first hand
when governed by king that Kings could change laws at their whim
and in the process protect their friends and relatives from the
righteousness of the law or send in a DUNGEON forgotten to the world
one of their Enemy.
The actual government has brought back the ages of imprisonment
in dungeon against all the values the founding father passed to
us in the constitution of a DEMOCRATIC NATION.
To be fair the government probably believe they
can get away with this unconstitutional executive act.
Why?
Because the Majority of the Supreme court, which are the judges
and guardians of the Constitution have proven that they are a rubber
stamp approving whatever the Bush government decides is constitutional.
The best proof of that is that The actual Supreme court rendered
a decision appointing President George Bush in a smart but
noneless Coup, preventing American votes thus American Citizens
to fully elect their President.
So we are in a land now where Yourself,
Your son Or Daughter can be arrested, labeled as an enemy combatant
and disappear in a detention facility where no contact is allowed.
That is literally tearing the Constitution a part,
debasing the memory of the Founding Fathers and reneging on DEMOCRACY.
Being secure in the Right to have public and due
process of law versus been sent to a dungeon by a king or by a totalitarian
regime such as Communism especially during Stalin tyranny is a right
so vital that if this suppression was explained and publicized to
the American People the reaction would be an horrified one
The 6th Amendment is one of the most important contribution of DEMOCRACY.
June 28th 2002
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AWAY
FROM DEMOCRACY
Where are we today in the American
political scene on May 23, 2000
Well, it is sad.
We see the National Rifle Association
parading on the T.V. claiming that they are proud of being the one
who prevented the USA from becoming a Nation like Australia, England
which disarmed its Citizens, but what they do not say is that criminal
death by guns are more than ten times less frequent in these countries
than in the USA
The NRA leaders are portraying
themselves as the savior of the second amendment, which they
falsely describe as the right to bear arms for the American Citizen.
It is a plain lie because the
second Amendment reads In a well organized militia the right
to bear arms shall not be infringed.
It remind me of The EXTRAORDINARY
LIES Communist leaders told their citizens and make them believe
that it was the Gospel. The accumulations of these lies set these
nations and their citizen a century back in poverty and corruption.
That is the effect that Dictatorships based on lies and briberies
have on a nation and The NRA is a dictatorship organization based
on lies that is claiming that they will be seating at George Bush
table.
What a delightful scenario for
the future of Democracy in the USA and the comfort of the parents
who lost a child to gun shooting.
What a comforting thought for
the Americans who are not ALL WHITE to see in the very state of
the possible future President of the USA George Bush"s Henchmen
sabotage the nomination of a Latino Judge . His backers the Republican
leaders delay as much as they could the nomination of Latino Federal
Judges.
What a pleasant future for black
people to think that their future President support a University
that forbid them to Marry white people.
It is DEMOCRACY UPSIDE DOWN.
When the allies of the future
President force you to marry within a certain race.
When an internal dictatorship
ally itself to a future president to lie about the second amendment
and insult Mothers who try to protects the lives or their children
.
Where is this great
Nation going?
AWAY FROM DEMOCRACY
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THE
SUPREME COURT AND THE 2000
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
If there is one thing and only one
thing to remember from the 2001 Presidential election it is the
role that The supreme court played.
The elements were the followings:
After counting the votes in the nation, the votes in one state
were going to be the votes that will elect the President of the
United States; the state was Florida.
The winner George Bush Junior had a narrow margin of Victory,
his opponent
Al Gore asked for a recount in certain counties, Florida having
antiquated voting machines, these were punch card voting machines
prone to let some vote not to be counted if the voter did not align
the card well enough or did not press strongly enough.
Al Gore challenged the recount
as it is his right under the U S constitution and was immediately
opposed by the Republican Florida state general attorney, who was
doing her best to secure her party's candidate victory.
George Bush had the right to challenge the legality of the
recount to court and he did so at every step. He took his case to
various court, mainly the FLORIDA supreme court and to simplify
the case lost on all his attempts.
The Supreme Court of the USA
is supposed to interpret the constitution, and above all not to
interfere in the internal affairs of a State, many legal analysts
thought that the case of the relevancy of the Florida recount will
not be taken by the supreme court.They were wrong.
The USA Supreme court not only
took the case but rendered a very disturbing verdict, they essentially
forbade the recount in Florida adding a twist that did not give
time to the counting body to finish their work.
It was not in the area
of competence of the USA Supreme court to do the following
ruling
Take up a case that belongs in the FLORIDA supreme court only
Prevent the recount of the people voices in the Florida state
by reversing a FLORIDA supreme court ruling.
First in a previous ruling putting on hold their decision then delivering
the ruling late enough to make any recount impossible anyway.
This latest trick expose the very unlawful mind of this Supreme
court.
By their action which prevent the votes of the Citizen of the USA
to be counted as fairly as it could be, They APPOINTED George Bush
Junior as the President of the USA. PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH WAS NOT
ELECTED, HE WAS APPOINTED.
WE HAVE WITNESSED THE
FIRST COUP OR USURPATION OF POWER IN THE MODERN USA BY A USA SUPREME
COURT.
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THE GOOD PRESIDENT AND THE GOOD VICE PRESIDENT
The only team capable of rescuing the USA from the Abyss it has
been pushed into by President Bush is composed of:
President: Nancy Pelosi, Vice President Colin Powell
or
President Colin Powell, Vice President Nancy Pelosi
Make no mistakes the situation in the world and specifically in
the middle east which includes Iran and Iraq and the horn of Africa
is so volatile that there is going to be a war or many wars for
the next 10 years if not fifty years.
In addition the American deficit, the poor state of US manufacturing,
an appalling system of education, abandon of Civil rights, debasement
of the constitution need serious attention .
The Team of Nancy Pelosi and Colin Powell in their complementarities
can address all these problems.
Together they have the knowledge, they have the experience and intelligence
as well as the backbone to undertake this gigantic task.
These problems should be listed and comparisons with other countries
should be part of this document and of course the solutions should
be provided in this document called :
THE REBUILDING OF THE UNITED STATES
or
THE RENAISSANCE OF THE USA
Eric Lafayette
Email: ericlafayette@fordemocracy.com
Tel: 1 310 500 8771
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THE
ESSENCE OF WAR
This essay dealing
with the subject of war is a very sensitive subject.
War leading always to death and destruction, I will in a few
words state my position about war for the readers that are not familiar
with me.
I am the opposite of a hawk, convinced
that a mediation could solve almost any problems and very ill at
ease when a conflict is looming at the Horizon.
On the other hand as an historian or even
as a student of every day life, I know that conflicts and war are
inevitable.
Conflicts with partners, family, neighbors happen
every days.
Conflicts between nations or within groups have
been the norm.
I believe thus that when a war has
been imposed on you then you should use all your strength to win
it with the least amount of suffering for your people
War
has existed since the creation of human on our planet in different
forms the most frequent being an army of warriors going again another
army of warrior.
Terrorism has existed since the creation of the human being
and had claimed many lives. The most frequent being the killing
of soldiers and civilian through
bombing.
The sad originality
in the Attack on The USA at the world trade center and the Pentagon
is the magnitude and the numbers: There is no other attack on civilian
and unarmed personnel of this magnitude outside of an ongoing declared
conflict or war than I can recall.
If you take World
War Two, Churchill ordered the Bombing of German cities only after
German planes bombed civilian in London( which could have been
an error from the pilot but that was a fact that Churchill did not
know at this time).
Prior to that event the bombing of civilian was an unfortunate
byproduct of the bombing of military targets.
Even when The horrendous
bombing of the town of Guernica by the German mercenary force during
the Spanish civil war resulted in thousand of civilian casualties,
it was to gain a Strategic advantage on the ground and to kill armed
adversaries in the town.
I am trying to highlight
the fact that during the last century and this century
the American Democracy and their western allied have
abided by a code of military ethic. This code has suffered two successful
exemptions: The bombing of German cities with the excuse that Hitler
started it first which contributed to winning World War Two in Europe
with less allied casualties and the Atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
which contributed in winning World War Two in Japan with far less
American casualties.
The code of the American Military is written nowhere but has
recently become a doctrine of war and is the following:
Do not attack or kill civilians as a primary target.
When attacking military targets avoid as much as possible to kill
the civilian near by or destroy their property.
By their acts and
declarations the Teleban Dictatorship and their terrorists allied
have clearly announced their doctrine:
Kill as many civilian as you can as long as they
are not Muslims
In the recent weeks starting with the world trade center attack
on
September, 11, 2001 they have killed around 3000 unarmed people
of all races and religions, adding Jewish civilians in the street
in Israel and Christian civilians who were praying in a church in
Pakistan.
What makes
the Teleban terrorist doctrine original is the focus on killing
Civilians
What makes the American doctrine original is the focus on not
killing Civilian
It is a conflict between Barbarism and Civilization.
We should remember the lessons of history. Many civilized countries
were destroyed or conquered by their Barbarian neighbors. ATHENS,
ROME being the most famous examples.
We have to be perfectly
honest and lay the problems as they are.
By setting an unbreakable
rule of avoiding with extreme focus to kill civilians,
The American Military complex is fighting with one arm tied
behind its back while the enemy has not discarded and on the contrary
use civilians as targets or their own as human shields.
Then comes the ultimate question for the Commander in chief
and his staff.
How many American
soldiers am I willing to sacrifice in order to protect civilian
enemies which will make the war longer and deadlier for the
Americans?
The American Army
is so powerful compared to the country of Afghanistan
That they can literally bomb the population of the country
into disappearance without using Atomic weapons or chemical weapons
or biological weapons. without the loss of one American except for
accident or mechanical failure.
On the other hand
The Talibans and the Fundamentalists Muslims are collecting and
trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction to kill millions of
Americans civilians.
They will thrive in killing dozens of Millions of American
people without the slightest hesitation.
What are the Military
options that the 2 opposed countries will exercise.
Afghanistan
USA
World wide terrorism
No terrorism
Biological weapon
No biological weapon
Chemical weapon
No chemical weapon
Atom bomb
No atom bomb
Maximum civilian casualties
Minimum civilian casualties
Small Regular Army
Huge Regular Army
Even with these handicaps the American army will
win but at a greater loss of AMERICAN lives than a not so
discriminate bombing campaign.
But the ultimate
test will be if a larger nation, such as Pakistan and this theory
is not so far fetch, becomes part of the conflict on the Afghan
side. It is the USA worst nightmare . It will happen if the actual
leader is assassinated or overthrown. At the rate the Telebans assassinate
their opponents it is far from a wild guess from me but I absolutely
hope to be totally wrong on that guess.
How many American lives is the Commander in Chief who is also
the President of the USA is willing to sacrifice to overcome a Pakistan
or another large country dominated by Teleban activists and sympathizers
such as al Qaida terrorist group while minimizing Pakistan civilian
casualties. Pakistan is a country that possesses the Atom bomb.
There will be in
the future fundamentalist Islamic Countries that will challenge
the USA. Will the USA sent its Army with a hand tied behind there
back.
Only against a small country like Afghanistan can the US army
win with a hand tied behind its back because of its small population.
One may say that the restrain that the American Army is exercising
in their bombing or special forces use is not out of ethics or humanitarian
consideration but to avoid inflaming Muslim communities in Muslim
countries.
It is partly true and a constant preoccupation of the USA but
again a wrong calculation of the USA.
Only an extreme spectacular show of force with harsh punishment
will obtain the respect of the Muslim nations .
The Muslim Nations even the most civilized and tolerant harbor
a very significant
amount of Fundamentalist Muslims who have to be awed by the
AMERICAN MIGHT. Only AWE will achieve respect from them and responsible
behavior will follow an then friendship in the same way it happened
with Nazi Germany and Fascist Japan.
Due to the doctrine
that I call now: "Fighting with one hand tied behind its back"
another Vietnam is looming in the future.
The war from the
perspective of the Fundamentalist Muslim is not anymore
a war that seek to conquer lands or population. It is an enemy
that wants and has said so to kill as many American mostly civilians
as they can.
When your enemy
has shown that his goal is to kill as many American civilians
as he can anywhere on the planet, conventional rules of warfare
of an army against another army becomes an irrelevant strategy.
Unfortunately Mass murderers like these fundamentalist Muslims
can be eliminated only by killing them but above all showing deterrence
of such a magnitude that any other head of state will consider that
helping these Terrorists even a little will be so dangerous
that they themselves will chase, capture and execute them.
The state department is running its policy on the Afghan conflict,
the middle East and the Muslim nation on erroneous concepts most
of them based on Ethics dear to civilized countries. They could
not be more wrong.
The naked truth
is that:
A Barbarian will consider only a show of extreme force, without
that he will consider his enemy a wimp or a women( and I said that
with the purpose of reminding my readers of the absolute degraded
state of a woman in Afghanistan)
Thus he will consider that his enemy will back down or at least
let him live so he can perpetrate more assassinations( case in point
Sadam HUSSEIN).
He will not even consider following any advice or request from
a wimp or a woman.
On the other hand if he is in awe in the sense of fear and
admiration of his opponent then he will accept him naturally as
the chief of the tribe. The natural hierarchy with Barbarians is
that the one that is able to beat any other into a pulp is the chief
and that is where we are with barbarians and that is the naked truth
that the American Foreign Policy does not even consider.
The American policy is trying to avoid that Muslim people hates
American. The problem is that a great part of the Muslim world already
hates the American and these haters are increasing in number everyday
due to the indoctrination of the young people.
There is no way that fighting a war again a Muslim nation and
showing them that you voluntarily tied one of your hand behind your
back will convert haters into friends.
When an enemy primarily focus on killing civilians you cannot
answer by focusing on not killing civilians. It is not a matter
of ethics it is a matter of survival. Civilian casualties of an
enemy who specifically targets your civilians are a product of the
rules of engagement imposed on you by your enemy.
Restricting your Soldiers in not being able to follow the same
rules of engagement that the Enemy is putting on them a death warrant
and failure.
We are back to Vietnam again.
We are self imposing restriction of engagement by choosing
to extremely limit
enemy civilian casualties that are similar to the one self
imposed in Vietnam and
that were so disparaged by all the recent military Commanders
over and over again.
The only way to impress a state of AWE upon the Followers of
the Fundamentalists Muslims is to do what the Hostile Islamic world
would judge an impossible feat:
At the same time achieve to:
Win a war against Afghanistan Telebans in a spectacular
manner with heavy lethality and with unconditional surrender.
Attack and win a war against Iraq' and Sadam Hussein
mass destruction weapons and hunt him down to bring him to trial
Be prepared and able to win a small third conflict brought
by probable reaction
Give the Palestinian a State and then and only
then support Israel 200%
Increase Humanitarian help to a level never seen
Show all these accomplishment on T V, a network
owned by moderate Islamic
leaders willing to promote the values of civilization
versus barbarism
Think hard and thoroughly how to implement a Marshall
plan progressively.
It is not such a difficult endeavor for the USA but the lessons
from the two first Wars and their spectacular winnings
are essentials for the success of this program. The only obstacle
for such a program is the complete misunderstanding of the
Arab Islamic world and its Fundamentalists. In one word the American
foreign affair and military are incompetent in this Domain.
Make no mistake today terrorists Fundamentalist Muslims are replacing
yesterdays cold war Communists with an even more violent
agenda.
The USA even in Vietnam were fighting sophisticated
contemporary people.
If you watch the fundamentalist Muslims you can see with your
own eyes that they have pulled their people back in the Barbarian
ages comparable to the period preceding the middle ages. We are
right back with the scourge of the East ATTILLA the Hun.
One more time the USA and European nations are
fighting a war with the tools, strategy and Ethics of the
last war.
On a personal note, the Ethics, the genuine care for other
people, the reluctance to inflict casualties are traits of character
of the average American people that make me cherish the
USA and its citizen above any other nation.
However these are mindsets that are not convenient in a war
against Terrorism.
The Essence of War is to fight with
all your strength and to win total Victory
The Duty of the Commander in Chief is to gain a decisive victory
with the least amount of casualties on his side not
on the enemy side.
Each life of any American soldier is utterly precious and any
operation that try to spare enemy civilian casualties in exchange
for the possibility of an American soldier being killed is a dereliction
of duty from the Commander in chief.
History has proven that against Countries
lead by Fanatism and Dictators,
where a good part of the population adheres to an Ideology
only crushing defeat and unconditional surrender brought Peace.
ADDENDUM
I will genuinely acknowledge the fact that the writer, the
commentator, the journalist can act as the Monday morning quarter
back and that happens too often and the leaders who decide
literally about life and death every day have decisions
to make that are a lot more difficult that to put a few words on
paper.
This leads
to explore the process of making decisions
Basically making a decision in
term of war is taking a chance.
Great general or Admirals in the past have succeeded because
they made decisions that were unconventional and bold.
Admiral Nelson at TRAFALGAR used an unconventional and
bold tactical move by his boats all of them bow first against
a line of boat. Battle in parallel line was the text book battle
tactic at this time.
Very bold and risky tactic but it paid off with an enormous
Victory.
General Hannibal
against the Roman Empire had his elephants cross the Alps mountain
on narrow difficult roads, feat thought impossible, This
unusual tactics assured him surprise and Victory.
These two example from the two
greatest war leaders to illustrate that making decision in warfare
is not choosing between the plan A and the plan B that are in the
books.
It seems from the outside that the American way of leading
the war in Afghanistan is a model in following the book of war according
to American strategists and Tacticians.
In order to defeat the Taliban and at the same time impress
the Muslim world
more "special effects" tactics should have been implemented.
Because the war is televised, without neglecting the fundamentals
which have been conducted properly and thoroughly in the first days
of war another dimension should have been added such as more use
of huge bombs even if they were not necessary and even if they were
used a little bit of Target in order to minimize civilian casualties.
A carpet bombing of 100 Daisy cutters ( huge bombs) outside
Kabul on the Teleban lines would have been psychologically more
efficient than the same result in casualties with the small precision
bombs.
Caves should have been bombed
20 at a times, exactly at the same time showing
the might and scope and incredible talent of the American Air
Force almost like an air show. These
spectacular tactics well used on a different level of weapons were
well known since the Greeks and the Romans by the great generals.
The journalists have been keen to point out that
this war is conducted in a mediocre fashion which is not my
opinion but I believe that the American military establishment is
so conventional that straying from the book is unthinkable and even
great generals have to abide by the book, with exaggeration we could
say that the Army is a huge administration without imagination.
Only a decision that does not follow the book by the
letter is a genuine decision from a leader in Warfare.
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