[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

And a ping for those on Alouette's list, she's away from her computor.

[Maria S]

Outstanding article! Thanks for the post.

[RebelBanker]

The writer is comparing apples and oranges. The situation in Iraq is more closely akin to Reconstruction than the actual War Between the States. We have already won on the battlefield, the trick is now to convince to population to accept the new government.

Deo Vindice!

[BlueLancer]

Orchides Forum Trahite
Cordes Et Mentes Veniant

Grab 'em by the balls
And their hearts and minds will follow

(From the desk of G. Gordon Liddy)

[Uncle Miltie]

Churchill's dictum: "Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival."

Kerry's dictum: "Victory if the French allow, victory only against specific terrorists' specific acts, victory as long as the conflict doesn't become difficult and make us withdraw, for without nuance there is no appeasement."

[KC_for_Freedom]

And Israel, the Little Satan, will prevail over its existential enemies only when it realizes that in order to survive it must fight by the rules of the neighborhood in which it lives.

I like that, "fight by the rules of the neighborhood" and note that the level of morality of this fighting is set by the side willing to go lowest. The US needs to understand this concept.