The opponents of our war to defend against radical Islam speak of a "quagmire." We are on the verge of a quagmire all right. It's just like the Vietnam era's domestic political quagmire created by the pro-Communists opponents of that war and others who just wanted to "bring it all down, man," as well as, opportunists like Mr. Clark. That was the Quagmire of the Vietnam era. Its impact on the war was a war lost and far, far too many lives lost.
We cannot afford to lose this war. The country yielded to the Vietnam political quagmire. Today's political quagmire must be stopped. But how? We need a leader who is not affraid to just shut it down and lead the military to victories in our country's early 21st centruy wars -- including the one looming with the chi-coms.
World Net Daily/Western Journalism Center
Tuesday.July 21, l998 by Steve Allen
WASHINGTON -- "Somebody came into our waters and shot down -- for the first time ever -- a flag carrier of the United States," an expert on the explosion of TWA Flight 800 said at a Washington briefing yesterday.
Commander Bill Donaldson, a retired Navy pilot and accident investigator who has spent 15 months examining the case, said that two missiles were fired in the vicinity of the airplane, and that one of them exploded close enough to bring the plane down. It's no wonder, he said, that investigators did not find evidence of a direct missile hit; the missile was of a type specifically designed to explode near (rather than in contact with) its target.
Flight 800, Donaldson said, "was intentionally destroyed by a powerful, proximity fused, airbursting, anti-aircraft weapon launched from a position approximately one nautical mile off shore and three nautical miles east of Moriches Inlet, Long Island, New York." In addition, the airplane was "engaged seconds later by a second missile fired from a closer position to the south of [the plane's] track."
There were 230 passengers and crew on board the Boeing 747 when it was destroyed, on the evening of July 17, 1996. The plane was bound for Paris and, at the time of the explosion, was eight miles off Long Island.
In other words ... start a massive civil war and sit back and watch the fun. Wat to see which despot rises to the top, and then negotiate with the new dictator. Who is going to be in charge of occupying the Sunni Triangle? The Sunni? Shiite? Kurds? Please. Why don't we just line the women of Iraq up and let the remnants of the IRG give them their number in line for the rape train. What an idiot. Somewhere out there in Freeperland has to be at least once WP grad who can make some sense of this genius for me.