Posted on 01/09/2010 6:24:29 AM PST by tobyhill
Osama bin Laden’s chief goal, was to bring the US into a war with Islam. He understands his own people's obligation and commitment to overcome the West and bring about a Caliphate. If we as a nation and a people, do not grasp the significance of our enemy's purpose, and why they fight on, our troubles will continue to mount, with no end in sight.
There was an elementary reason why armies of old salted the earth... self preservation; because it worked!
Freeper TomasUSMC’s tagline reads: “Fight like WW II, finish like WW II. Fight like Viet Nam, finish like Viet Nam.”
As painful as it is to repeat; he does have a point, and you do too!
Who has been honest, and is of great political stature, and has leveled with the American People, and given it to them STRAIGHT, in those exact same words, just as you have done, right to their faces and told them the brutal truth that our struggle may well last 200 to 300 years, long after we are all gone? Huckabee? Romney? McCain? Hillary? Pelosi? Reid? Panetta? Obama himself?
Worked for the Romans.
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