Pat's constantly being defended, it seems, on the basis of "context". Looks to me like his defenders and marks saying, "don't believe what you read, here's what he REALLY meant...".
I got it just fine.
Pat has expressed anti-American views on a par with ANSWER and Michael Moore. His fans, however, refuse to see that and continue with the defense, which only gets weaker and weaker.
And of course we need Islamic support to deal with an outlaw movement that recruits in the Islamic world.
For my view on the War on Terror, see War 2001--The Shortest, Surest Path To Victory. Obviously, the Administration with its projected idea of changing other people's cultures, is off on an other approach. That does not mean that those of us who disagree with that approach must stand mute, while we lose the War--or cause it to drag on indefinitely. Rather our duty is to point out its flaws, in an effort to mitigate the damage being done.
The comments of Perle and others, whom Pat attacks, are assinine. Pat, not his targets, is the patriot.
William Flax