[Jet Jaguar]

Agreed.

Saddam had specific assurances he would not be toppled.

He was.

Libya opened up and Syria left Lebanon.

Once the world saw that we, the Americans, started to falter and become weary (the left) they knew that they had nothing to fear from America. I believe the State Dept. saw this and has been advising policy based on it.

Now, Syria is back in Lebanon, Iran is posturing, and Little Kimmie is posturing.

Appeasement is ineffective every time it is tried.

[mkjessup]

Once the world saw that we, the Americans, started to falter and become weary (the left) they knew that they had nothing to fear from America. I believe the State Dept. saw this and has been advising policy based on it. Now, Syria is back in Lebanon, Iran is posturing, and Little Kimmie is posturing. Appeasement is ineffective every time it is tried.

Good points. The problem from the very beginning of the War on Terror is that entrenched leftists, pro-Islamics and hidden America-haters throughout the federal bureaucracy were not only determined to inhibit and sabotage America's war effort, they fully intended (and have in many ways succeeded) in encouraging and propping up our terrorist enemies, from al Qaeda to Ahmajerkinameanwad in Tehran, to Comrade Chia Pet in Pyongyang, ad nauseum.

Now combine that Achilles Heel with the naive and foolish views of our illustrious Commander-In-Chief who tried to make nice-nice with the Muslim fifth column with all those proclamations about 'religion of peace', 'allah is the same god Christians and Jews pray to', blah-blah-blah, with the latest abomination being his actually taking his shoes off for 'allah' as he participated in the rededication of the 'Islamic Center' in Washington D.C.

Now the politically correct, and the Islamic-apologists are quick to babble about "not ALL Muslims are terrorists", but check it out folks: in this post 9/11 world, all of the terrorists HAVE been MUSLIMS!"

Now as for Comrade Chia Pet, he's been consistent in every one of his actions, consistently a threat, a threat that was never taken seriously by Emperor Billigula's regime, and apparently not by our current Administration either, as they return to the Clintonista approach of 'ignore' or 'appease' or 'pay off' Pyongyang in hopes of delaying the inevitable day of reckoning.

As you point out JJ, Syria, Iran and North Korea are all ramping up their terroristic efforts because they perceive that America IS faltering, and like any predatory animal - when they sniff blood, they get excited at the prospect of participating in the 'kill', whether that prospect is realistic or not.