[An Old Marine]

My definition of lowering the boom is to make your enemy anxious, very anxious actually, to end a war on whatever terms you are willing to offer him. To that end I would apply the means.

I am now willing to admit that on the current evidence that the President would appear to be smarter than me.

[justshutupandtakeit]

The problem is there is no real central authority that can call this crap off. Lunatics of varying stripes with a relation to Islam is something much different than the type of enemy posed by a national government like the Nazis or the Chinese. Our military strategy for decades was postulated on this traditional view. Islamic terrorism is not capable of defeat under that strategy which will have to become much more diverse in tactics and much more controlled from the local level. This is a very dificult transition our boys must make.

[Dog Gone]

I am now willing to admit that on the current evidence that the President would appear to be smarter than me.

He's made a career out of being "misunderestimated."