Hi Attilla,
How are you today? I agree that President Bush has given the troops in the field more leeway. The comment came from a snippet I heard on Laura Ingraham's show (I think) where supposedly Zarqawi was just missed because someone didn't know if they had clearance to shoot. If that stuff's still happening it's bad. And ... I agree, if you are talking Total War in the WWII or even early Cold War sense..fight until the enemy is totally destroyed and either surrenders or is fully occupied, I agree with you. But I also agree with Steele that we are still too willing to accept the b**lSh*t that the enemies of Freedom throw at us about killing cultures other than our own. I do think the Western Tradition deserves defending in the manner that Tony Blankley suggests in "The West's Last Chance".
I'm fine Lee...and I agree with you. Our culture doesn't need to be apologized for.
European culture led the world out of savagery.