[redrock]

"....no time to go wobbly."

Perfectly said.

redrock

[redrock]

"...no time to go wobbly."

redrock

[CWOJackson]

"These dangers will not be eliminated by success in Iraq, but they will be made more manageable as Iraqi oil comes on line, U.S. forces are freed up for duty elsewhere and Islamism is dealt a strategic defeat. This is, as Margaret Thatcher famously put it, "no time to go wobbly."

Amen...and carry a BIG STICK.

[thoughtomator]

Good to see someone is calling this war by its proper name.

[philetus]

Patrick Henry said it best


Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! -- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the North will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our breathren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that Gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery! Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

These have, in turn, contributed to a worsening situation on the ground there, featuring continuing physical insecurity, political turmoil and demoralization of U.S. forces. Amplified by relentlessly unfavorable press accounts and increasingly shrill Democratic criticism...

This sentence is incorrect. Replace the bolded word 'amplified' with the word 'created' and the sentence is now correct.

[txhurl]

One of the things that could tie the United States down considerably would be the emergence of a terrorist Fifth Column here at home.

Dane done blew our cover. What now? Go buy another fifth?

[FairOpinion]

Thanks for the ping.

The article is right on.

We should not be declaring that we are out by 2006 -- we should declare that we will stay until the last terrorists is eradicated.

[TheLion]

"Suddenly, the heretofore unthinkable seems not so impossible. Domestic political considerations driven by declining polls and negative reporting have prompted the Bush administration to take a series of dubious tactical decisions in Iraq. These have, in turn, contributed to a worsening situation on the ground there, featuring continuing physical insecurity, political turmoil and demoralization of U.S. forces. Amplified by relentlessly unfavorable press accounts and increasingly shrill Democratic criticism, these developments have given rise to still more dubious tactical decisions, an emboldened opposition on the ground and more bad news to report."

Exactly what the liberal media wants everyone to think!

Even many liberals I have talked to recently are very aware of our problem. I think it will get worked out....and they know it needs to be done by Bush.

[SAMWolf]

One of the things that could tie the United States down considerably would be the emergence of a terrorist Fifth Column here at home.

Too late, moveon.org, Hollywood and the DNC are already here.

[Travis McGee]

Unfortunately, the Associated Press reported on May 30 that a new Defense Department report perceives an ominous Chinese interest in waging war swiftly and decisively against the United States. For some years, party and military leaders have used a term that translates into English roughly as "Assassin’s Mace." The wire service quotes the Pentagon analysis as saying this "concept appears to include a range of weapon systems and technologies related to information warfare, ballistic and anti-ship cruise missiles, advanced fighters and submarines, counterspace system and air defense." There is reason to fear that the Chinese believe some such capabilities could be successfully employed, possibly in the relatively near-term, with little warning while the U.S. is tied down elsewhere to attack Taiwan and assert Chinese hegemony in East Asia.


One of the things that could tie the United States down considerably would be the emergence of a terrorist Fifth Column here at home.

[Jeff Head]

The Chinese have believed this from the get go, and have been working towards this end economically, politically and militarily for a long time.

Their eventual onslaught could include our being bogged down in at least two other places (ie. Mid East and Korea), their own new technology weapons (ie. space based or supervacitating systems), parity or near parity in other areas (ie. SU-30, Sovremenny DDG's, Subs, Carriers), asymetrical warfare (ie. terror/sleeper cells inside America), etc.

And they have engineered the economic conditions to allow us to help fund a major part of it.

If we are not careful, it will lead to something akin to:

THE DRAGON'S FURY SERIES
A Techno-thriller series about America and World War III

To try and give a warning of potential conditions like this as regards the PRC is the one of the principle reasons the series has been written...hoping that couched in an exciting and engrossing read, the information might get folks to thinking.

[spodefly]

BTTT

[dr_lew]

Taken together, these developments confirm that a withdrawal from and loss of Iraq will hardly be the end of our travails.

Roe Conn, the afternoon host on WLS 890AM in Chicago, is not an ideologue by any means, but pretty much a hawk by temperament, and his observations often give satisfaction. A week or so ago, he opined that he couldn't say whether going into Iraq was the best thing to do, but that having done so we had "opened the gates of hell" ( i.e. engaged its forces ) and there was no way we could back off now.

[Porterville]

Man we been in WWIV since Sep 11. Ain't nothings change, resources are being organized, alliances are being formed, and institutions are being strengthened and dissolved.... 5 years we own Canada!!!

[ampat]

No is the time to have a well regulated militia. Arm every citizen.