[SLB]

Last night I was visiting with my father-in-law, an almost 87 year old retired LTC. (He retired in 1961, was in Korea at the start of the war) I asked him if he could imagine Al Gore looking the same and giving the same speech as President Bush did yesterday at Camp David. Wow, did I set him off! He has a MS degree in history and he let me know how un-presidential Gore would have been. He used examples of speeches going back 200+ years.

This is a great post. Too many mox-nix posts going up now. Just like the news casters, they have nothing "new" to say so they just repackage what has already been said.

[rightwing2]

One problem to the coming US attack against Afghanistan...Since Pakistan has refused to allow US ground forces to enter the country, we are going to have to invade Pakistan in order to get to Osama Bin Laden and overthrow the Taleban in Kabul. The only problem with that is that Pakistan is a nuclear power with at least 25 deliverable nuclear weapons atop MRBMs and IRBMs and carried by fighter bombers. If we invade Pakistan, we will likely start World War III and it won't be pretty. So unless we can get Pakistan or decide to do a Desert Storm against Iran on the way to Kabul, we may have to settle with dropping off the 82nd Airborne in hostile territory or Special Forces in northern Afghanistan to rendevous with the 15,000 Northern Alliance troops to train and arm them against the Taleban.