Victory is a strategy

Freepers sense weakness about Obama and ISIS. But they're rather at a loss about how Obama could actually be tougher. Luckily, Freepers are never ones to shy away from empty triumphalism. So when an Obama spokesperson notes that "We can't kill our way to victory" Freepers start up the simplistic chanting:

Forward the Light Brigade goes in with the obvious strawman:

We can only win with HUGS! Lots of hugs! the hugs of a powerful bear—the kind that breaks ribs and cause the lungs to be punchered, Spines to crack and severe internal injuries! The kind that leaves people in Wheelchairs!

SeaHawkFan - all we need to do is kill everyone in ISIS. Easy!

The only way to keep people from joining ISIS is to kill all of those who are already members. Do that and people will figure it out on their own.

Reno89519 wants more destruction of Mosques:

Personally, if US troops or military are used against Islamic groups, it should be by first destroying their mosque, then anyone coming out to defend it.

More of Reno89519's homespun military wisdom:

On the battlefield we cannot give quarter to Islam and its supporters. Coddling the Islamic state is weak and self-defeating. What I’d like to see is that every time someone drives around in a truck or march anywhere flying the Islamic flag, that it is immediately destroyed by a UAV.

bluejean knows the problems is that we're not fighting World War 2.

Back in the “olden” days before “modern” ideas began dismantling reality (as a mental construct), when people believed in good and evil, we could go kick @ss for the good guys and leave the evil dead to be eaten by crows and claim victory.

The muzzies would have been banished to obscurity by now instead of raising hell all over the planet.

I miss the good old days.

Secret Agent Man agrees - war is super simple.

what makes this war different than any other war? we won those by killing more of them and threatening to keep doing so unless they surrendered.

marie can’t say it’s different b/c the president is a muslim and isis is his fellow muslim jihadi brothers.

StAntKnee blames liberals for all defeats:

After the first shot is fired and the enemy fights back, liberals and progressives in the vicinity of any war begin the cry that they cannot kill their way out of war, after which they begin a campaign to fulfill the prophecy of losers, undermining any strategy or person with the power and will to win.

Repent and Believe thinks we can birth our way to victory!

(It would sure help if we would populate the earth with Christians rather than insult God with birth control and abortion. Then the invaders wouldn’t be demographically overwhelming us and God might actually fight against them with us. But until then...)

Albion Wilde - we've been thinking too hard for decades!

There’s an excellent companion piece titled “The Only Strategy to Defeat Jihad” by Jonathan David Carson, Feb. 11, American Thinker. The author posits that the enemy is no longer afraid of us due largely to the end of colonialism.

IMHO, the other big reason this particular enemy isn't afraid of us is the ridiculous win-on-the-ground, surrender-by-the-Congress mess John Kerry and Teddy Kennedy made of the Vietnam war. If not for the bleeding hearts in DC hamstringing our military, we could have been in and out of there with a clear victory. But no.

Surely the islamists made careful note of that, followed by Jummah Cahtah's mess with the Ayatollah and not being able to summon the strength to get our men out of captivity.

It reminds me again with yearning for the simplicity and profundity of Reagan's foreign policy: "We win; they lose."