[Billthedrill]

You have to make allowances - the piece is five years old. At the time a very prominent, macho individual in a turban claimed that the Americans were soft, that we wouldn't fight, that we only bombed from 20,000 feet. Sort of like our author here did, although it isn't what he had in mind when he wrote this. The guy that claimed that, though..."he don't come 'round here no more."

I dunno - maybe we get too depressed by the crap coming over our TV's. I don't really recognize the country the author is writing about, although I can readily imagine it from what I see on CNN and read in the NY Times. If that country is what they see, maybe the problem is with them and not with us. Because there are a whole lot of folks with turbans who found out different.

[blackbart.223]

" If that country is what they see, maybe the problem is with them and not with us."

The problem has never been with us.