[NormsRevenge]

J.F. Kelly, Jr. is a retired Navy Captain and bank executive who writes on current events and military subjects.

[NormsRevenge]

It’s time for us as a nation to decide whether or not we are really a nation at war or just a nation at war with itself.

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I'd opt for the latter, personally. There is no adversary we could not defeat if we have the resolve and unity to do so.

[Peach]

Well, here's a guy who completely gets it. Maybe he should hold seminars at FR?

[Theresawithanh]

Good article. The part that gets me right in the heart is when he writes about how the antiwar folk affect our troops' morale, and I believe it, not to say that they don't continue to do their job, but that disgusts me.

God bless the men and women of the United States military!!!!

[popdonnelly]

The Bush bashers have been behaving badly for six years. No surprise there. The surprise is that they appear to be winning.

[Filo]

I had/have the same visceral hatred of BJ Clinton but that was justified. ;-)

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Graymatter]

Leaning heavily on Golda Meir here---we shall have real peace when the Dems love America more than they hate George Bush.

[redhead]

bumping for later...

[popdonnelly]

To get back to the original subject, the war in Iraq seems to be effectively over. The turning point was Election Day, 2006.

[rusureitflies?]

Yes, "Group Think" will kill ya, ask Stalin... I support President Bush on this war of terror on America kill them where they eat...

[RobbyS]

The war has not entirely been mismanaged. The aim has been to keep the country from breaking up, which is the very opposite of that which some people would like to happen. We can't forget what happened in Yugoslavia after the Germans encouraged its breakup. Too many actors seem not to want that result and we seem to have reluctant to kill them. Shinseki proposed numbers for success at a level that would recluded an invasion. I still do not see that an invasion was a bade idea, since we can reasonably guess what the situation would have been with two bad actors, Iraq and Iran, each contending for control in the region.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Tautological Title?

[primeval patriot]

Lesser examples include the unremitting condemnation of the president’s plan for a last ditch military effort to salvage something out of the Iraq fiasco without offering an alternative plan which the president has said time and again he would consider.

Who led our armed forces into this fiasco?

[AU72]

Bush as spent what political capital he has left on the 'Surge'.

The fate of Iraq, and the WOT depends on the result and he only has this year to succeed before the 2008 Election Cycle brings out the weasels in Washington.

With this much at stake I fear 21000 more troops may not be enough.

[roaddog727]

Bumperoo!