[Willie Green]

After the shipwreck of communism came years of relative quiet, years of repose, years of sabbatical - and then there came a day of fire.

SABBATICAL???

Anybody know what the heck he's talking about?

Are Gulf I, Somalia, Bosnia and Kosovo supposed to HAVE beEN "sabbaticals"??

[Miss Marple]

"Sabbatical" refers to the Clinton's refusal to do with the hard issues in foreign relations, as I am sure you know. You are simply trying to start another vein of Bush-bashing on this thread.

[yooper]

"Are Gulf I, Somalia, Bosnia and Kosovo supposed to HAVE beEN "sabbaticals"??"

Absolutely. They are sabbaticals from the perspective that we didn't go into any of those places with proper training, proper tactics, sufficient equipment & technology, and above all, the will to kick the living shit out of our enemies until they said Uncle.

Gulf I was the best effort to achieve the above goals, and it still failed because we didn't have the stones to go into Iraq and grease Saddam. That was a mistake.

As to Somalia, Bosnia and Kosovo, those were on Clinton's watch. Every legitimate conservative on this forum knows what that means. The entire Clinton presidency was on a "Sabbatical". As in MIA, as in CYA, as in DOA for Gore.