Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Today's topic: how to fight and win a war against proxy armies.

First, let's define 'proxy army': that's a paramilitary force used by sponsor nations, who want to avoid direct conflict with their foes, to fight or otherwise cause trouble.

The world's most notorious example: hezbollah. Everyone knows that hezbollah is a proxy military for Iran. Iran sponsors it, supplies it, trains it, feeds it, gives it direction, etc. Most recently it fought the Israelis in southern Lebanon. There are many other examples, pick your favorite and read on.

The surest way to fight and win against a proxy army is to attack the sponsor - in the case of hezbollah, that would be Iran - with crushing military force. Again, using Iran as an example, if Qom and Bandar Abbas and Tehran were fire-bombed, you can bet that their orders to hezbollah would be of a more temperate nature.

So to summarize: deal defensively w/ the proxy, attack the sponsor without mercy. Do NOT go out of the way to avoid so-called 'collateral' damage. Do NOT attempt 'measured' or 'proportional' responses. Instead, wreak utter havoc. Carpet bombing comes to mind as one attractive means to maximize damage and misery. Create dead bodies and powdered cities by the trainload, as a means to educate proxy sponsors and their apologists worldwide of the ultimate price of sponsorship.

Of course the ostriches won't see things that way, because their heads are so far beneath the sand that they don't see at all.

And that's my position, and I'm sticking to it.