Better late than never.
If you have not seen this elsewhere, read it now: Vice Director Admiral Sullivan of the JCS Strategic Planning and Policy's take on the Long War. (PowerPoint Presentation)
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/files/jcslongwar_vicedirectorforstratplansandpolicy_j5.ppt
"Cut and run" did great damage to the antiwar crowd. What we need now is people (pundits) and others to portray the President as beleaguered by a host of "Bush Haters" who would destroy the country to fulfill their anger lust.
Deep in the recesses of crowd psychology is the desire to see your leader prevail and especially against unfair attacks or fortune. We expect that and appreciate it, but it has to be highlighted by the movers and shakers.
Regardless of what people thought or think about President Clinton his poll numbers went up with impeachment. People intuitively, and perhaps even reluctantly, respected his ability to function in spite of the charges against him. Freepers missed this as did I but the poll numbers told the story.
We have a Lancelot and he is taking on all comers. Time to rejoice in that.
probably too late, but only by a couple of YEARS!!!
Just pull bin laden out of a hole, and everything will be fine.
Let's not forget, we've had no attacks since 2001.
This is one of the many moments when I miss my Dad.
I wish I could ask him if Americans were inundated with spin that read: "For the third time in less than a year President Franklin Delanor Roosevelt is launching a new campaign to counter opposition to the war in Europe and Japan with a series of speeches he insists are not political."
If so, it's a miracle we won WWII.
If not, I better understand why and how we did.
I asked my Brother, who is currently in Iraq (Balad) what his take on the Iraq situation was. His answer below:
"As for Iraq, I guess what bothers me the most about this place is that the enemy (enemies) of this countrys successful rise to being a great place again is that all they have to do is “keep the blood flowing”. Our media will take care of the rest. It’s like the president said, all they have to do is be right once, we have to be right all the time. When you have people blowing themselves up, or militias sneaking out at night, taking people from their homes and killing them en-mass, and an Army that hasn’t even learned to get past the Kurd/Sunni/Shiite issues to a point where they can’t trust each other enough to work together for a common goal, it becomes frustrating. We are working to solve these problems, but it takes time. I guess we will know what our country wants to do after our next election. Sometimes I think about our own Civil War and how, if it didn’t turn out the way it did, how our country might have turned out. I mean, we have our problems, but we don’t have the deep divisions to a point where we cannot functions together as a successful society. This stuff has to turn out right here, or, well, I would hate to think what this place will become for generations to come, and how this will affect the safety of the US and our families. "
Not real upbeat, but that's my brother. He does see the impportance of waht they are trying to accomplish. Judging by his opinion after 4 months in country , I sure hope Bush really steps up the defense of this effort. We cannot afford to let the Dems ruin what progress we've made to this point. Go get'em is right!
P.S. I have no idea what he meant by "great place again". I think he's listening to an Iraqi point of view of what once was, but only for a select few. Nonetheless, I always find it interesting to get a perspective from those who are there, and thought you would too.
No mention of the very sharp decline of violence in Baghdad in August....why are reporters afflicted with such slow brains?
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NEVER FORGET
Praise GOD that...
President BUSH has promised...
Freedom's return to:
Communist Vietnam
Communist North Korea
Communist Cuba
..as well as..
Freedom's arrival to:
All the countries of the Middle East
...as America's own best self-protection against future terrorist attacks here at home.
***promised in a personally signed April 2003 BUSH Letter read aloud to over 1,000 Freedom-loving Vietnamese Americans demonstrating in Little Saigon CA in praise of BUSH's bringing Freedom's arrival to Iraq & Afghanistan.
Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer
-An inperson Witness to this event
-Veteran, 1st Major Battles for Freedom of the Vietnam War 1965-66
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm
(Photos)
NEVER FORGET
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Yes, it's high time.