[johnb838]

It is the deference to the liberals that is the worst mistake the political and military has made in this war and it has cost the President a lot of capital. While they dither, the bad guys kill the real innocents. Witness Fallujah. They let the people live under a true reign of terror for four months longer than they should have to try every diplomatic option to avoid the use of force in which some civilians would die. When will we remember that a lightning shock attack (Blitzkreig) might result in some casualties at the moment but will save thousands over time and get the damn war over.

That's what makes me mad. Other than that, i think they're doing ok, I think we'll prevail, barring a drastic change in goobernment, but I believe it's taking much longer than it needs to ultimately because of the treacherous rats, but really because the military accommodates them.

[SMARTY]

The coalition is involved in a kind of fight which the Israelis have been conducting on their home turf for a very long time.

Their fight, and ours, is against a nebulously organized, clandestine, dedicated, decentralized force which has the wholehearted sympathy of the MSM worldwide and enough funds/materiel (secreted to them) to continue at their own pace in their own way and in the location of THEIR choice.

This is 'urban guerrilla' fighting which handicaps a numerically and air superior, state of the art army (the coalition) and forces military and political leadership to account for their policies, themselves, their losses, their errors and their expenditures in a way that no guerrilla force ever does or must. For coalition leaders, this is a gigantic handicap both politically and tactically. In the most shabby and gullible reporting you can imagine, the MSM makes red meat out of this daily. Disgusting. Just once, one of these so called media giants ought to step up to the plate and admit the obvious. Terrorists account for themselves and their actions to NO ONE./p>