Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Can the Book of Mormon tell us how to deal with terror?

Okay, so let me know what you think about my idea for the terrorists in Iraq and other places.
Background: President Hinckley compared the terrorists we are fighting to the gadianton robbers spoken of in the Book of Mormon. So we all remember how the Nephites at one point dealt with those terrorists. They gathered themselves into one body which starved them out and forced them into an open confrontation which the Nephites easily won.
So we need to do the same. That is: force the terrorists into an open confrontation which we should easily win. Now, our strategy might be a bit different...because we can't just starve them out. But what I propose is that we:
1) empower the Iraqi police force: give them lots of cool weapons and technology
2) withdrawal of our physical troop presence into a central location: Kuwait or Baghdad
3) intelligence gather through spies and satellite surveillance
4) commit our support to the political parties that support democracy in Iraq
5) enforce that support through our air superiority
6) Prepare for a frontal attack
Whenever the terrorists organize themselves into a militia...or try to overtake a city...we bomb them. How can they ever get any real power? Every time they do anything to secure any real power, we can easily identify who the enemy is and send down a missile! Its like terrorism in reverse. The extreme terror organisations wouldn't be able to do anything about it but launch a frontal attack...that is, come out in open warfare against our guys who are clustered together and have superior weapons, training, and air superiority.
I admit that my idea relies a lot on the Iraqi police force. We'd have to trust that they'd stay unified and that they could maintain order in their cities. And my idea also needs some strong Iraqi leaders to stick their necks out and take leadership at their own personal risk. I think that the Iraqi president is afraid to let the US out of Iraq because he is thinking of his own personal safety...and the safety of his family. But George Washington risked his own name and fortune for our country...and we need to find the Washingtons of Iraq...maybe they are already there and we need to get out of their way!
But these Iraqi leaders will have something that Washington never had: F18s, F15s and stealth bombers ready to sweep in and hit targets as accurate as 1meter diameter...just a phone call away.
So I propose a withdrawal of our army troops...but a continued air presence. We will support democracy and freedom of religion in the country.
And if it works in Iraq, we park a few aircraft carriers near Iran and do the same...starting with their nuclear development sites.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Alvord-

You are some kind of freak! I think that you might be some kind of genius! I now have your blog as my homepage!

-Stu

Anonymous said...

Well done bro...

Truckbeard said...

Centers of strength brother! Love it!

Anonymous said...

Hey Dave, some good theories on paper but I just don't see how they could work. There really isn't a way to force them into an open confrontation. They learned a lot of lessons from Afghanistan with us and the USSR. With the US they fought in the open and were dessimated. With the USSR and now their current strategy with us is just to be a thorn in our side in front of the whole world until our resolve is gone and our own public opinion forces us out. They could never win face to face and have no intention of doing so. They just want to wear us out mentally through creating fear and chaos. I'm not quite sure what the Iraqi police could do with any amount of technology and I'm not sure what a spy satellite would accomplish. Spy satellites are good for tracking convoys and movement of troops but can't really help us on home grown terrorists. Unfortunately air superiority only works if you have something to shoot at. You did touch on the importance of actual spies. I think that is about the only thing that will work but those are a rare commodity. What I do know is that we can't be afraid to level a mosk to kill as many of these people as possible. They don't care about our churches or even their own mosks. We will never win a war by fighting it with a PC strategy. Wars are won by those who want to win regardless of the cost.

-Steve

David Alvord said...

Steve-
I know that the terrorists will be reluctant to get into an open confrontation. But after years of us just flying by and dropping bombs...they will have to chose to confront us openly, or just give up. Either option would be desirable.

Targets? I think that if the Iraqi police doesn't keep the terrorists out of power...the targets will materialize. I don't think their intention is to hide in the shadows forever. They are trying to wait us out and then take over. But if we just keep some air support in the region, we can bomb those targets once they materialize...

Dave Alvord

Uncle Jack said...

DA: Great job on creating a blog to make your ideas/ideals available to all! Although I'm your 'Elder-Uncle', I'm also your #1 fan! However, I'll keep mum on the comparison your wife made between you and me just before your marriage (she meant it as a compliment), as I don't want the 'Libs' to think you might be partial to their side! (hehehe). I'll be looking forward to your continued spew of... "Deep Thoughts by Dave Alvord (aka Jack Handy)".

PS - I've sent Sen. Orrin Hatch a link to your blog. Hopefully he'll take some time to get educated!

Anonymous said...

I'm telling you Dave, it isn't a matter of reluctance,it just isn't in their interest to have open warfare and they have no intention of doing it. That is why they have suicide bombers and people that hijack planes. Their tactic is to destroy our resolve and morale and for most of Europe and half of the United States it is working. They will neither confront us openly or give up.

The only real target would be if they did group together. Otherwise we are just killing single ants with atom bombs.