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Break his will, nothing less, if victory is your goal in a war. Destroying every single airplane your enemy has does nothing to win the war if the opponent does not give up. It only makes it easier to continue attacking him bringing woe and misery to the enemy until he screams for mercy.  If you declare victory before you have broken his will you have only managed to give the enemy a respite allowing the enemy to rearm. Breaking your enemies will is a ugly thing, it does not play well on the evening news but anything less is not victory.

“To capture the enemy’s entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or a squad is better than to destroy them. For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the supreme of excellence. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence.”
- Sun Tzu quotes

Daily Pundit has it absolutely correct, none of the pundits on the right seem able to face what it is we have to do to win. Our misery has not risen to the level that will have us screaming for the blood of the enemy’s children. No doubt some will say that I am a barbarian. To them I would say we are at war, whether we acknowledge it or not the enemy we face has not declared peace. We do not face a weak enemy unable to decide whether or not to kill us. We face an enemy who has repeatedly declared his intention to murder us, including our children perhaps most especially our children, in vast numbers.

None of us have the feeling that we stand at the gates of our village defending ourselves from an enemy bent on destroying us and our families. This became evident when we wasted time against our enemy debating how we treat them. Instead of devising better ways of murdering his troops, his support, and bringing woe to his families to break his will, we spent time discussing how we handled his books. We wasted time discussing amongst ourselves whether we should read him his Miranda warning. We at one point even had the President of the United States and his Sec. of Defense debating what we should call this war…whether it was a war against Islamic Fundamentalism or a War on Terror or merely a war against Extremism.

So now in our war the United States is unable to win because we are unwilling to do what is required to win, break the will of the enemy. Perhaps we are soft, perhaps we do not feel threatened, perhaps it is guilt that holds us back, regardless, nothing holds our enemy back. And yet those of us who do know what it takes to win and wish we could get on with winning, worry. We worry that perhaps the enemy understands that it is possible to rouse us with a massive attack and rousing us is not in his interest but in ours.

Perhaps we facing an enemy who is beginning to understand that killing us through a thousand small cuts may be better than rousing us. Can we be roused if the enemy does not do us the “favor” of a massive attack? At this point it appears that the only way we will rise up, name our enemy, and do what is required to defeat him is for us to be roused. Roused to the point where we feel like our backs are against the wall and we start fighting with no rules. What if the enemy knows this and doesn’t rouse us? He would be following Sun Tzu’s rule to not make an enemy desperate:

Do not interfere with an army that is returning home. When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
- Sun Tzu

Western Civilization is in retreat all around the globe. Why attack us now when they have us in retreat?

Link to Daily Pundit » Yeah, We Can Win - If We Decide We Want To

One of my favorite bloggers Gerard Van der Leun has an excellent piece on the war.

Who is the enemy?

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