Posted on 11/11/2004 12:08:06 AM PST by kattracks
IN the Second Battle of Fallujah, military operations are ahead of schedule. Our casualties have been blessedly light. The terrorists who haven't fled are being killed by the hundreds. Our troops will soon achieve their goal of eliminating Iraq's key safe haven for terrorists.Our Marines and soldiers have carried the ball inside the 10-yard line. The media's response? Move the goalposts.
The legions of pundits ("Will talk for food") now suggest that a win in Fallujah will be meaningless because we failed to kill or capture the terrorist leadership, because some of the thugs ran away and because Fallujah won't resemble Darien, Conn., by next Sunday.
On Tuesday, as our troops handily pierced the defenses terrorists had spent months erecting, The New York Times carried two front-page stories implying that our forces were facing possible defeat. The Times' military analysis was incompetent and just plain wrong. And the photo its editors ran above the fold showed a Marine curled in a ditch under enemy fire.
It wasn't reporting. It was a mix of anti-American propa- ganda and wishful thinking. Al-Jazeera couldn't have done it better. Now that our troops are winning so lopsidedly that it can't be denied, the Times likely will tell us that Fallujah didn't matter, anyway, that our efforts were wasted. Then Seymour Hersh, the New Yorker's greatest living fiction writer, will follow up with a fairy tale called "Failure In Fallujah."
What's really happening?
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By fleeing without fighting to the death as they promised they would, the terror-masters discredited themselves. After Coalition leaders lost their nerve last April, the terrorists portrayed themselves as having faced down America's military might. This time, they ran away, leaving untrained recruits to take the bullet-train to paradise.
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We celebrate the success of our troops here on this Veterans day. We are so proud of them, and grateful for their every sacrifice.
TO&E= Table of Organization and Equipment, jocon.
Chain Of Command from Colonel or General. Down through Companies, Platoons and Squads. Plus the wherewithall (Logistics, Weapons, Radios, Special Equipment, Individual Issue, etc) to fight battles.
Jack.
Thank you, like a "table of contents" sort of. Military stuff is very confusing, I tried looking something up the other day, forget what it was, and googled me way into some Military regs. Couldn't make head or tail of it, and I'm usually pretty good at wading through stuff that I really don't understand!
The NYP gets it.
>This time, they ran away, leaving untrained recruits to take >the bullet-train to paradise.
The mark of a cult: Dying for your leader.
The mark of Jesus Christ and any TRUE leader: Dying for your people.
Now, on to Tehran!
There was no better Birthday gift for my Marine Corps then being given something to destroy & blow up!
OooHHRaahhhh!
The only way to appease the MSM is to apply the Harry Truman solution - nuke 'em all and let their God sort 'em out. That way, the media would have a lot to talk about for a long time. Of course, when they check the history books and find out Truman was a Democrat, they may not like it after all.
I hope we have a couple "catch bags" set up on the routes to the surrounding towns. The capture of a couple Head Rags and some of their hostages would cut thru the dillusional "militants" cant.
Wonder if W will go to the Vietnam Memorial this morning. On my way there now.
I think future tactics will be:
Iran = Afganistan
Syria= Iraq
Probably needs to be modified a bit. Jesus Christ remained obedient to the Father, (his legitimate authority figure), even unto death. Jesus Christ also provided a substitutionary atonement for the sins of all mankind. In this sense he died for both his 'people' and his 'leader' (leader probably isn't the appropriate term here.)
The 'Leader' in this case, the Father, was righteous and free to restore the spirit to the body and soul of Jesus Christ, resulting in ressurrection.
In the case of the Islamic terrorists, we are likely to observe both immoral degeneracy and moral degeneracy.
In immoral degeneracy, the sinner rebels from legitimate authority to the point of rejecting morality and then further degenerates into attacking legitimate authority in violence.
In moral degeneracy, the sinner declares himself self-righteous, judges others based upon legalistic morality, and degenerates to the point of attacking divine institutions such as freewill, private property, marriage, family, and nationality.
There is probably a hodge-podge or moral and immoral degenerate persons who are our enemies in the war on terror.
At least someone in NY does.
Well said. Bravo.
GO, RALPH, GO!
I have really enjoyed and learned from seeing Ralph so much on FOX these last days.
Hope Rush picks this up and reads it on-air. Every America should be advised of this.
"...leaving untrained recruits to take the bullet-train to paradise."
Classic!
Islam is a religion where god tells you to send your son to die for him.
Christianity is religion where God sends His Son to die for you.
John Ashcroft (paraphrased slightly)
PS, when I saw John Ashcroft say this on TV some time ago, the press was trying to use this quote paint him as a complete nut job. It didn't work. They truly don't get it.
A moving target is much easier to spot. Sooner or later, they make mistakes, as Saddam did, and as OBL will. Meanwhile, no army ever won by reteating.
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