Posted on 09/03/2006 10:03:43 AM PDT by meandog
I agree. War should be fought in a totally unrelenting and aggressive manner. Destruction of the enemy should be the order of the day, every day. Crushing, overwhelming and continuous force, day in and day out. No quarter ever asked or given. War should be made so horrible, so devastating for the enemy that they will realize they either surrender or die. Once we stop sanitizing this war it will shortly end.
This war reminds me of a street fight where the big guy is afraid to rip the little guys throat out because someone may think it's unfair. Never mind that the little guy started the fight to begin with.
The best criticism I have heard is that whoever is in charge has more interested in process than in cutting solid deals with those who really matter. Instead of setting up paper governments, they should have cut secret deals that divied up the power and told them if they delivered we would support them when crunchtime came. The difference between Polysci 101 and politics Mayor Daly style.
If it should fail, the result is less likely to be another tyranny. There are many ways to skin a cat with democracy, and I don't think they have even scratched the surface of the various possible derivatives.
Right now, it is the steaming and pent up rage against the Sunni's by the long dominated and abused Shia, and Iranian interferences that prevent any deals from being struck.
The worm should turn soon. All is not lost. They have options now.
They have lay-ed a groundwork that is flexible.
What emerges may be different, but it will tweak Iran and Syria, and likely cause revolution in these countries eventually.
This part: The fact that we are in war against ALL OF ISLAM, something the president (who calls it "the religion of peace" doesn't seem to understand? I also do not believe that Muslim culture allows for "democracy" but perhaps a simpler form of it (based entirely upon a "strong man" being an enlightened despot).
If you're saying that I believe that McCain would have done a better job of conducting the GWOT than Bush, then I would agree with you... Incidentally, I voted for Bush (twice, the first time--though McCain was defeated in the primaries--because of the opposition he faced and I honestly believed him to have the qualities of Reagan even ; the second time because of the opposition he faced).
The simple truth is, both you and I know that McCain would have gone off the deep end by now. He's not capable of handling the kind of stress the WOT creates, and there is no way he would survive the kind of stress that lays ahead for the next president.
It's you Fred.
I read no further than the first sentance.
Says it all for me. No mention of graduation and any education beyond but of course his view of things is so much more authoritative than W's
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