[Non-Sequitur]

Just my opinion, but I don't believe that is the case. When a marine (if you will) sitting in the cushy US makes statements to the world media which puts his fellow marines actually in the field into even more harm's way - he loses that special aura of "marine".

I fail to see where the words of one aging Democrat congressman is putting marines in more peril than they are already in. Or emboldening an enemy that has already shown that he will stop at nothing to kill as many Americans and Iraqi civilians as he can. How much worse can it get?

[Jeff Head]

It gives the enemy hope that the American public and body politic is about to break...that our will is weak and not committed. Any enemy will be emboldened by that potnetial and will redouble their efforts to make it come completely apart.

Therefore, in fact, our personnel are in more danger...everywhere.

IMHO, this is very obvious.

[daybreakcoming]

Aging Democrat Congressman? A post ago, he was a Marine.

But yes, his statement certainly discourages the call to jihad, doesn't it? Discourages their ambitions and new recruits?/SARC

Or does it enpower them?

How much worse can it get, you ask? You really don't want to know. But blood may be on his hands now. He is the Cindy of the Week.