[backtothestreets]

As things stand now, I can't argue with the reasoning. I hope others awaken to the threat, then fight it.

[MNJohnnie]

It's absurd nonsnese. More of the usual Junk Media drama queen hype and hysterica by those who need manufactured anst to get them thru the day. Start with the most obvious. "The West" dependence. Umm ignorant hysterics. WE can live without their Oil if push comes to shove. THEY produce nothing else. We are not addicted to their oil. We are addicted to their CHEAP oil. At any long term price over $60.00 a barrel they start pricing thesmevles off the market. Domestic and alternative energy sources start to become economically viable. If they cannot sell their oil, they have.......

That right nothing. With the US Economy growing more then the entrie Chinese echonomy produces they have NO alternative market but us. A fact the Arab elites, if not their wack job extremists coousins, understand

[Iris7]

This war has found me a bit old but has not found me unwilling. Perhaps we will meet again.

[aquila48]

The islamic threat is the cancer of western civilzation. It is pernicious, not amenable to destruction by any of the high tech weapons we have. Its parasitic, virulent cells hide behind the tissues of society, sometimes feeding on it, other times blowing it up.

And just like it is taking a long time to eliminate cancer, so will it take a long time to eliminate the islamic threat... unless our body politics remains so unaware of its existence that it ends up killing us first.

[hinckley buzzard]

The frustrating thing about this article is that all ten ideas have been promulgated on this forum for several years now. The failure of the left to sign on for the sake of it's own survival, if nothing else, is the scandal and obscenity of this darkening age.

I note too however that these obstacles ultimately are a mere Gordian knot, which can be cut with the sword of ruthless Western determination. The life and death question is, will we ever raise up the leader to do the job? After 9/11 I was one who thought George Bush was that leader, and I thanked God for his election and inauguration despite the coup attempt against America by AlGore and his flunkies. But I see now, after the last couple years of dithering, he is not the man I thought he was, maybe the penultimate leader, but he will not lead us out of the wilderness. His weak and feeble "prudent, kinder gentler" upbringing is his Achilles' heel.

He could have been "da Man" but the George Bush at Ground Zero with the megaphone, or before Congress on 9/13, or at the National Cathedral, with the miserable Clintons looking on, both their pants filled with BM and their mouths filled with ashes and their heads covered with hot coals, is dead and buried.

His intentions were right but his instincts have been proven lacking. He had his boot on the necks of his enemies but he let them get away because...he doesn't know who his real enemies are.