You must have mistaken me for somebody else. ;-)
It's very well our war. We are fighting it, too.
But I'd like to know some further details (see previous posting)
Sun Tzu is a clever citation. He also said, "No country took a benefit from fighting a war over a prolonged time"
And my guess is that we are dragged into making the world safe for chineese communism to come.
Last week it was announced that 900+ troopers of SAS and SBS are heading to afghanistan - that's a good load of highly trainend and thus very valuable personal - so this is making a significantly bigger effort.
I am pro effort - but what if chavez acts up now ? Putin is selling him weapons like russia never before did to a SA commie - and what are we (you) doing about ? I am not asking to badmouth the USA but because this never happened before - the USA I know has always reacted to such developments.
BTW Germanys goverment made a big fuzz over not going to Iraq - but we are there and where there - and you lapped it up. Stupid you ;-)
(I am no friend of the former german government)
So to be correct you got to be angry on Schröder for his Anti American BS he spread. That would make us two. But on the other hand it maybe helped certain middle east people to open their heart to the right ears.
You know how it is when you get going and start spouting off broad sweeping generalizations that you make up on the fly.
I am grateful for Germans who understand and support the WOT. I do have criticism for liberal Germans role in the WOT and perhaps should have made that distinction. Of course Liberals here in America are even more traitorous b/c they try to make a show of support while committing treason. At least the Past liberal government of Germany openly voiced its opposition openly instead of the doublespeak going on in America here.
Sun Tzu did advocate Political warfare first and Physical Battles as a last resort.
As for sustained warfare I don't know what level of warfare the US could sustain over the long term. In other words can we invade 1/3 of the World? Probably not but I think we could do a lot more (if there was the political will which there is not).
The billions we are spending now on the WOT are a small percentage of the GNP (a pittance) when compared to the percentage of the GNP we spent on WWII. Thus we are capable of so much more but lack the political willpower. I think many Americans have the willpower just not our leaders.