[bwteim]

" Recently we were within hours of smashing the resistance in Fallujah once we accepted war anew. But when the mujahedeen, Gollum-like, decided to slither out in the open, then in terror scampered to safety, then remerged on all fours defiant and barking when we stopped firing, our forbearance and fear of global-televised condemnation handed them a victory they did not earn. In short, we should have listened to Sam and strangled the creep on the spot."


Great article.

PING

[TexasRepublic]

We are at war with bloody Islam and we should never apologize for any means of defending ourselves or demoralizing and destroying the enemy.

[kissmyconservativebutt]

No, the challenge again is that bin Laden, the al Qaedists, the Baathist remnants, and the generic radical Islamicists of the Middle East have mastered the knowledge of the Western mind. Indeed they know us far better than we do ourselves.

Hell, half the freepers here think we should coddle the friggin Terrorists. We should have leveled Fallujah, blew up the entire mosque with that idiot in it, and then carpet bombed Baghdad and Tikrit...just because we can. The world's jaw would have hit the fv(king floor and I bet we wouldn't have heard a peep out of anyone for awhile. When someone does open their mouth, do it again, but harder. Maybe toss an errant nuke over to Tehran. Oops, we meant that to go to Hollywood, sorry.

[Revolting cat!]

They grasp that we are not so much worried about being convicted of being illiberal as having the charge even raised in the first place.

Bullseye! Yep, look in the mirror: aren't we a nation of people who "learned everything they need to knows in kindergarden" and fear nothing more than being accused of "unfairness"!

[TalBlack]

".....their modus operandi is to push all the way up to war — now provoking, now backing down, sometimes threatening, sometimes weeping — the key being to see the struggle in the long duration as a war of attrition, if you will, rather than a brief contest of annihilation."

And, so, THEY are calling the shots.

"If, on occasion, an exasperated and furious West sinks to the same level — renegade prisoner guards gratuitously humiliating or torturing naked Iraqi prisoners on tape — all the better, as proof that the elevated pretensions..."


None of this can happen if your enemy is dead, in droves and not able to spin anything. It's over. Life goes on.

[lainde]

Thank goodness for Victor. I have been waiting for him to comment. I'm never disappointed! Thank you for posting the entire article!

[winker]

I remember a speech the President gave shortly after the Afgan War began and paraphrasing him he said that "THIS WAR" would be unlike any other war we have seen or heard about and would be seen on some occasions and not seen on others. It is apparent that this is exactly what has happened because it is over the tops of the average American's heads. It is not in any way like we are used to seeing a war prosecuted in our past and it is causing a lot of problems understanding what is going on at times.

I for one am dizzy trying to follow its twisting paths of stopping and starting and even bailing out when we had them by the throat in Falaugia the other day. War is a confusing fog of subtrafuge; bobbing and weaving manouvers that form or at least is supposed to end up at a finisiing point. One thing I am increasingly concerned with is an exit strategy designed to pass the reigns of power over to a new government, so we can get positioned to fight another day. The prisoner problem faced in all wars is a result of a lack of understanding of what total war really is. It is not a neat clean sterile environment that comes and goes quickly. This war is exactly what cultured Americans are not prepared for in any shape or form. It will be unlike anything we have been involved in in all our history. We are being hunted and stalked by a relentless savage all or nothing mentality driven by radical islam. To even have a chance of staying out in front we will have to prosecute a BLOODY nasty Kill them All Campaign designed to flood the battlefields with blood and unimaginable gore if we are to come away with a victory. If we had had this approach going in this horrific mess at the beginning we would not have the prisoner problem we are now bogged down with. America has trained Killer Warriors who know the art of WAR. This fact alone would have kept the numbers of prisoners we have to warehouse at the lowest minimums. Is very simple my dears if they want war by their actions then we taket to them in the strongest BLOODIEST fashion we can; and I mean kill every last one of them we can get our sights on. This fact alone planted in the enemy's conscious mind will not stop those determined to die anyway but it certainly will give them no time to lick their wounds. This is what this WAR we are now in is all about folks and you may as well face the music we are now and will forever be the enemy until Jehovah God comes for us in the Rapture!

[Libertarianize the GOP]

If the Arabs are becoming masters of the image game in western media and how to manipulate the public then they have also learned the basics of how the Western Political Process actually works. Who say you cant teach Muslims about Democracy?

[Clemenza]

Although Baghdad was worth preserving, we should have gone Dresden on Fallujah.

[Lando Lincoln]

Great article....here's a ping to our FRiend, Tolik.

Lando

[FairOpinion]

Great article.

It puts things in context.