[Southack]

"but what brave men we are sacrificing to draw the fire?"

Our finest. To win the war on Terror requires payments with our own blood...or alternatively, to be willing to wipe out the rest of the uncivilized world with a full scale nuclear, biological, and chemical armegeddon (which wouldn't do wonders for what our children would have to live in, environmentally speaking).

[Austin Willard Wright]

You forgot the third alternative: declare victory, withdraw from this quagmire, and emphasize national defense rather than world policing.

[oceanview]

geraldo on the phone live now with someone from there.