Hell yes. Cowboy diplomacy indeed.
Posted on 08/28/2006 1:58:19 PM PDT by SuzyQ2
I know how to fight.
Like most American boys – and perhaps a few girls – I learned the very basics of fighting on the playground in elementary school.
I’m not talking about specific fighting techniques, those would come much later: I’m talking about lessons learned about fighting that would shape my – and many others’ – understanding of fighting whether it be in a schoolyard, an alleyway, a boxing ring, or a battlefield.
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The commonplace cruelty of children is fully on display.
Hell yes. Cowboy diplomacy indeed.
The use of the word 'cannot' indicates that we are invincible.
Well....maybe we are. Hmmmm.
Amen bro !....
ps: Josey was a good Missouri man
The driveby media's disinformation campaign about the WOT and fighting in Iraq as well as the VietNam war weighs greatly about our "national consensus".
We were all for "going after the terrorists" for months after 9/11. It was only when the liberal media and liberal politicians felt safe again and crawled out their their cracks in the wall and they resumed their attacks against President Bush that we saw the beginning of the erosion of our "national concensus".
During the VietNam war, anti-American protestors like Kerry lied and was not called on it. They testified in Congress using false information, imposters, etc., and nobody called them on it because the MSM promoted the liberal agenda at the expense of informing the public.
As long as we have enemies within that are given a free ride to print falsehoods and misinformantion, "national concensus" is a myth.
“That’s just the way it is.”
That'll happen to us, eventually. Once a city (or 5 or 10) is destroyed by them, we'll resolve the problem in not much longer than the flight time of an ICBM (or 10 or 50). Of course, by then the horrific damage would already have been done to us, and who knows what other powers will be ready to start making trouble for us while we're on the ground, writhing in pain from the steel-toed kick between our legs.
Yeh.. I got those BlackPowder guys too....Fun, but a lot of cleaning....
Good peice.
Unfortunately. Even if we don't follow through with the pullout, we are already doing some of the other "never do" moves listed.
i.e. Our soldiers hands are tied. We are constantly leaving them in vulnerable positions. We allow enemy combatants to take pot shots at our soldiers often with impunity.
We should be heavy hand on the country until the war is over. We came to do a job. We did not need nor ask for their permission. We should not permit dissent until we are ready to leave.
Mosque, newspaper, individual on the street. It doesn't matter. If dissent with the US mission is expressed, it should be quieted immediately. When we leave, when our mission is complete, then they will be free to express their opinion. Until then we are the occupiers and we shouldn't be shy about that fact.
I don't want them to suffer but I think we should not be so entwined with their society that they become "familiar" with our soldiers. Familiarity breeds contempt.
When our soldiers are patrolling a street their should be a certain forboding sense of respect that quiets everything in the aera down.
It's still a war until WE say it's over.
"We were all for "going after the terrorists" for months after 9/11. It was only when the liberal media and liberal politicians felt safe again and crawled out their their cracks in the wall and they resumed their attacks against President Bush that we saw the beginning of the erosion of our "national concensus".
It was not quite two full months after 9-11 when Gephart and Daschle returned to their (much less than honest) daily bashings of the President and Administration with the same regularity and fervor as before 9-11.
Yes siree Bub! A couple of Walkers (12 chambers of 60 grains FFFG behind a 44 round ball) will make a "statement".
Exactly and they were probably deeper in dark holes than most liberal politicians.
Sound familiar?
Shouldn't be any rules in war. From a vet
I can't argue with that and my husband says I love to argue.
"...would prove to the terrorists and countries like Iran and Syria “that America is nothing more than a paper tiger;” and that would only embolden the bad guys."
They ALREADY believe that we're too wobbly to have to respect. They're ALREADY convinced that a Big Move will back us off entirely. They also believe the same thing of Israel now.
They're gonna do it...the Big Move.
"Am I going to far?"
Nope. Not far enough IMHO.
I agree with you 100%, they are soldiers not social workers.
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