He makes comparisons where they don't make sense. The work of generations isn't something that can be done with intensity, with movie-like constant marching in the streets and sacrifice forever.
Pinkerton is yet another 9/10 mind who simply doesn't get it--the whole point is that this isn't like any other conflict we've ever been through. His economic comparisons are not like-to-like so they make no sense.
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Even Iraq does not have to deal with 50% of its population being democrats. When we are done killing muslim terrorists, we need to go to war against terrorist democrats.
“When President George W. Bush declares that the Global War on Terror is “the concentrated work of generations,” one has to wonder if he really means it.”
With 5000+ people of unknown origin meandering over our borders each week.....well, that speaks volumes about the “sincerity” of GWB and the WOT. He has no cred.
1) no new American soil attacks, 2) the rat and the ratmedia have done the heavy lifting for our enemies and dumbed down the lemmings into believing there is no wot. Even Pinkerton a good conservative should acknowledge that.
When President George W. Bush declares that the Global War on Terror is “the concentrated work of generations,” one has to wonder if he really means it.
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This is a self-righteous complaint, for Pinkerton appears to be part of the crowd who thinks this war is not a war, but a police action, and one that is really our own fault. People like him don’t take the threat seriously. If the government really implemented the necessary security aspects of war, we would have domestic surveillance and certainly surveillance of any overseas communications. So, what does Pinkerton think of the very restrained NSA program?
Back in the “Greatest Generation”, we did not worry about how politically incorrect our actions would be, we worried about how to deliver death and destruction to the enemy.
The MSM has done its best to deny this war, and to belittle every effort to fight it. It is happy to trumpet defeats and especially any defect or deficiency on our part. No wonder the MSM is in commercial decline.
News as raw fact has become a commodity that is easily available for free. People no longer have to buy Newsday to get facts. They no longer have to buy Newsday even for advertising. The news business is now about analyzing the news, putting those stories in context and explaining them. Happily, I don’t have to pay Pinkerton and his ilk anymore for analysis. I can find it here, in the comments, and I can find it in the blogs. I don’t have to wade through miles of liberal tripe to find the conservative nuggets. I can go right to the nuggets.
I have found that there is almost nothing that I can learn from a liberal, except that it is a mental disorder, and one that is dangerous to our safety and prosperity, a conclusion that is continually reinforced whenever I read an opinion piece like this one.
America can Win the War. America will Win the War. Where I disagree with the author is war financing. Money is useless if defeated, so why sweat the small items.
As was spoken previously the war will be won or lost here in these United States and as we are forced to convert to Islam the people will finally know that the left-wing Democrats who talked of socialized government is the fault.
But it is then too late.
Reminds me of the familiar saying (out here in Iraq at least):
“America is not at war—the U.S. Military is at war. America is at the mall.”
I could expand that to say “Most of the deployed military is not at war.” Anyone who’s been on some of these lax FOBs (Victory, Green Zone, the softball games at Falcon) knows exactly what I’m talking about.
... if we can’t change ourselves how can we change others?”
Pure Liberal thinking. The rest of his argumentsa are false comparisons.
This guy is spectacularly ignorant of history as well as military affairs.
He makes not even one good point.