Lessons about Fighting WAR !!

fight on your terms or theirs ......... change Nazi's to Islamists

Movies for Grown Ups: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Theo: I read your broadcast up to the point where you describe the collapse of France. You commented on Nazi methods — foul fighting, bombing refugees, machine-gunning hospitals, lifeboats, lightships, bailed-out pilots – -by saying that you despised them, that you would be ashamed to fight on their side and that you would sooner accept defeat than victory if it could only be won by those methods.

Candy: So I would!

Theo: Clive! If you let yourself be defeated by them, just because you are too fair to hit back the same way they hit at you, there won’t be any methods BUT Nazi methods! If you preach the Rules of the Game while they use every foul and filthy trick against you, they will laugh at you! They’ll think you’re weak, decadent! I thought so myself in 1919!

Theo: [he pats Clive's shoulder] You mustn’t mind me, an old alien, saying all this. But who can describe hydrophobia better than one who has been bitten — and is now immune.

Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp - Full Movie - Part 15

[Starman3000m]

Ya mean we've realized that Jihadist groups may not be in agreement for abiding by the Geneva Convention and mutually acceptable "rules of engagement" ?

[Vince]

Some folks think you can fight a nice war with rules. Not possible if you want to win.

[Starman3000m]

Originally Posted by Vince

Some folks think you can fight a nice war with rules. Not possible if you want to win.

Exactly. Kind of like the old fashioned "gentleman's rule of engagement" way of settling a dispute. You and your opponent start off being placed back to back and told to take ten steps away from each other then turn and shoot.... except your opponent only takes nine steps.