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"The main source of our unmitigated stupidity in this regard, is the American Left. A more scurrilous, corrupt, hypocritical and self-serving bunch of American-hating scumbags cannot be found in our history, and can barely be found in other countries that ostensibly hate us, but whose people clandestinely love us."

I disagree with the conclusion.

I agree that the American Left are hypocritical and weak. They will never fight. President Clinton's abject performance in Rwanda is an example. France deployed forces, mighty America did not. Perhaps the American President was distracted by something else.

Let us look objectively at power.
The American Republicans hold a majority in the House of Representatives. Nothing, therefore, can stop the American Right from passing its laws there.

American Republicans hold a majority in the US Senate. As we have seen with the recent arguments about debates in the American Senate, if the Republican majority chooses to assert its power, it can shut off debate and force votes on any issue, which it will invariably win.

The American judiciary is shockingly political. It is also 60% Republican. 7 of the 9 US Supreme Court justices are Republicans.

The American President is of the Right, and President Abraham Lincoln demonstrated that, in time of war, an American President can override Supreme Court rulings which will harm the prosecution of the war.

The American media is certainly more to the left than the right. They also have no votes, no power, no ability to issue orders. The next American election is not until 2008.

Nothing prevents the American President and the American Right from conducting this war exactly as they see fit. Nothing but themselves. The Left cannot stop them in the US Congress. The Left cannot stop them in the US courts. The media has no power unless the Right chooses to grant it to them.

So, where the American Left appears to have power, it is because the American Right chooses to allow the American Left to block them. Nobody of the American Left issued any of the orders or strategic plans in Iraq. This was the American Right. The American Right is in charge of the war. The American Left has no input other than complaint, which the American Right can choose to completely disregard. If they choose not to, if they choose, instead, to allow it to paralyze the America war plans and cause American troops to be exposed to death and disfigurement longer and longer, then I accuse the American President and the American Right of weakness. The American Left is, indeed, foolish. But the American Right does not have to listen to them at all. They do. Which makes the leadership failure one of the Right, not the Left.

The American Left would not have fought the Iraq War. Not even if it needed to be fought. They are cowards. The American Right has entered the Iraq War, but are not willing to do what is required to win it. This is also cowardice, of a worse order, because it means more death and destruction.
If you are going to fight a war, then everything must be secondary to victory. Americans understood that in World War II. They understood it in their Civil War. They are unwilling to treat regions of Iraq in resistance the way they treated Germany, or Japan, or Georgia.
Americans have used this same strategy since Korea. And they have lost every war they fought since World War II because of this strategy.

The American left, in its cowardice, would have avoided another defeat.
The American right, in its belligerent cowardice, seem to be headed for another defeat.

The correct solution is for the Americans to fight a war, not a domestic political campaign.
And that will require the US President, in particular, to start aggressively overriding the political opposition in his own country, by taking acts that are unpopular and bloody in Iraq, and ignoring all criticism. He cannot be removed from office, and therefore his power is unlimited. If he chooses to limit it, whatever happens is his fault.