And take turns making the calls.
Posted on 09/25/2001 11:47:14 PM PDT by MadIvan
I would love to wake up tomorrow and find the 101 Air Assault Division in Baghdad (surprise!) but I don't think it will happen.
Saddam cannot turn his back on Osama, however-and his time will come.
Persia is a different thing than "Iraq", "Pakistan", "Saudi Arabia" and other misguided Western inventions.
Persia has a 3500-year history, ON THAT TERRITORY, and probably has latent imperial ambitions that can be turned to our advantage.
Whether the government survives is of course another matter, but our record with changing Iranian governments (1953) and picking winners (1979) is poor.
Iraq and Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, could disappear from the map tomorrow and ina week no one would know or care.
And take turns making the calls.
IMHO,THE big reason you missed is Blair and his fellow socialists see this as a way to suck Bush into replacing Bubba on their march towards "The Third Way" world gooberment. A "World Declaration of War Against Terrorism" is a natural document to proclaim a ban on the private possession of weapons,and a PERFECT PR opportunity to try and push this home. IF they can suck Bush into this,imagine the immense pressure ALL these countries can bring on him/the US at one time to ban privately-owned firearms in America. I can see the national and international headlines now,"Bush asks for help fighing terrorism,yet refuses to even disarm American terrorists!"
Blair is a fascist who was happy being Bubba's buttboy. That should be all the information anyone needs to know about him.
BTW,I forgot to mention the obvious. People here in the US now are starting to be concerned about "National ID's". Wait until the EU gears up and joins forces with the new "Homeland Uber Alles Office" or whateverthehell they are calling it,and we find that the "National ID" cards we agreed to "in order to help fight terrorism" suddenly morph into "INTERNATIONAL ID cards." Gonna be just a bit too late to start bitching about it then,though.
Somebody needs to do a musical parody of "The Beat Goes On",and turn it into "The Third Way Marches On".
This is a GOOD thing from OUR point of view. Winter with snow and ice is hard on guerilla bands. That's all I am going to say on this subject.
Cuts them off from supplies? They have to travel by foot or light vehicle that can't navigate? What advantage to us? Don't we have to navigate? Airplanes have problems with the heavy cloud cover, no?
I have a theory that Osama bin Laden will "never be found" either. But in the same way as Jimmy Hoffa...
Making OBL simply vanish would be far more useful, in about 10 different ways, than openly killing/capturing him.
Not with high-tech instruments, no...
With the gear the US military has, you could land a helicopter on a particular tennis court in an impenetrable fog with the windows painted black.
The one thing I do NOT want to see in all of this is news stories. Face it guys n gals, when it hits the news, that means that somebody screwed up. And it usually means that that somebody is dead.
Let's all hope and pray that the next story we see on the Nightly News or Commie News Network is that the mission has been completed. No fanfare, no brass bands. Just the wiping of another piece of crud off our shoes. Then our SPECOPS community can fade back into the woodwork and get ready for the next one.
Ruck
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