To: Darkwolf377
"SAYING one supports the troops in general is a nice gesture; pretending their work isn't the fighting the poster was calling for is embarassing."
You miss the point. It isn't that we don't support the troops, it is that our own government won't even admit the nature of the threat. Militant Muslims are only the tip of the iceberg. The threat is from an ideology similar to socialism or fascism. The threat is Islam, which by it's very nature is intolerant of freedom.
Until our politicians can stand up and say that our enemy is Islam, not just militant Islam, we cannot hope to win and our efforts will, for the most part, be wasted.
13 posted on
09/20/2006 9:42:52 AM PDT by
monday
To: monday; Darkwolf377; MrDaddyLongLegs; Frwy; ma bell
14 posted on
09/20/2006 12:15:44 PM PDT by
Bokababe
( http://www.savekosovo.org)
To: monday
I'm not missing the point at all. The point is that people who complain about labels and speeches are missing the point. During the Cold War, there were no regular speeches made while our intelligence people were fighting day in and day out. We are fighting the terrorists wherever they are; we're just not on the tube yakking about it for the weak-willed. ACTIONS are important, not politicians saying "Yes, it is a war against militant Islam," which would achieve zero, for the beenfit of those who need sloganeering to make them feel better.
The people who want everything done like a movie, with fiery rhetoric, are the ones missing the point.
15 posted on
09/20/2006 12:49:55 PM PDT by
Darkwolf377
(Republican, atheist, pro-life, anti-illegal, book-reading no-goodnik!)
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