"First, I don't agree with the premise that this kind of action would be politically impossible, after all, the President can direct the Air Force to bomb targets, as Clinton did, to keep the blue dress off of the front page."
Are you saying that Bush could order other targets bombed to distract our attention from this sort of action (bombing out whole villages from whence terrorist actions originate?) This point is really pretty unclear to me (I catch the Monica Lewinski reference but don't see where you are going with it.)
"Are you saying that taking measures that will be controversial is forbidden?"
To an extent, yes.
"Or, are you saying that because an election is coming up that the President doesn't have the onions to do what is required?"
No, I'm not faulting the President here.
"Are you also saying that an American soldier is less important than some Iraqi civilian? "
No, but on a certain level, being engaged in Iraq at this time implies a willingness to sacrifice at least some US soldiers to achieve an objective in Iraq and that is political in nature. We cannot achieve a political objective inside Iraq without consideration for Iraqi civilians. If we have no political objective inside Iraq, we should simply leave immediately.
"Are you giving up because you believe that the media is controlled by the MSM?"
I believe you have not phrased this question exactly like you wanted to. Did you mean to say "Are you giving up because the MSM is controlled by the Left?" In either case, my answer to the question is no, but I am curious to know if you doubt that the MSM is controlled by the Left. I certainly do believe so, but this belief does not make me want to give up.
"So, you have weighed in on this but have yet to offer a solution. So, in all of your brilliance in determining what is wrong with what has worked in the past, what would you do? How would it be done? What are your solutions? Or, are you going to negotiate?"
I have offered my solutions in various places and times within FR posts and on Strategy Page. Initially, I thought we should have increased the number of troops in the country after the conquest. Failing that, I would have still devoted a fairly large amount of troops to sealing the border initially and keeping it sealed.
I also stated some time ago that the US should provide the Iraqi government with all the equipment and personnel needed to provide biometric ID driver's licenses for every driver, registrations for every car, a tamper-resistant are RF-ID for every car (minitored by a cell-phone-like network covering each major city, connected to supercomputers) , camcorder/transmitters installed in all Iraqi police stations, and airborne rapid response teams (US soldiers) to instantly respond to any attack on an Iraqi police station. I have also suggested that vehicles in US convoys be driven by remote control to eliminate casualties of US drivers.
"And finally, do you have what it takes to be a survivor and a victor, or, are you a loser?"
I don't know the answer to that question...yet.