[MNJohnnie]

Here is the problem. All the chest pounding and bellicose bellows forgets THIS vital fact.

The vast bulk of the people currently fighting and dying for our side in the War on Terror are Muslim Iraqis, Pakistanis and Afghanistan.

Some of the Freeper Arm Chair Generals would turn those allies into enemies based on their fundamental ignorance of the world. They have the typical fan mentality. It us against them and we have got to destroy them to win.

Fortunately the people on the Bush team are a lot smarter then that. They understand that we can start killing large number of their people at any time. However it is always a lot easier to start killing then it is to stop it.

Counter Insurgency is NOT Total War. All the Macho Man yelping, by people like Mike Savage, displays a fundamental ignorance of the nature of the conflict and the proper way to win it.

Kill them all and let God sort it out is what the Russians in Afghanistan and the Nazis in Eastern Europe tired. IT DOES NOT work. Counter Insurgency (or more properly Counter Terrorism)is a different form of war. You must build a counter valuing political frame work within the society at the same time you defeat the terrorist (or insurgent) threat. Simply trying to impose a convectional military solution onto an asymmetrical warfare threat has FAILED ever single time it has been tried. Every time. It simply exhausted the political will and military resources of the power that attempts it. THEY live there. They got no where else to go. Make enemies of them all and evetually the occupying power gets sick of trying to occupy them and goes home.