[walden]

Oh cheer up-- the war has nothing to do with abortion. I fully expect this war to be much like the Cold War, which I lived through and I suspect you might not have. It lasted so long that the average American forgot from day to day that we were fighting it, and we eventually won, because communism failed economically. Sure, we fought localized wars here and there during that time period, but it didn't take a World War to defeat communism. Actually, when I read this article I got more cheerful about our prospects of defeating Islamic fundamentalism than I had been before-- I hadn't realized that the Iranian ayatollahs took over the economy as well. That's EXCELLENT! They'll fail, just like communism: in the mean time, we have to do the same sort of down and dirty CIA work as in the Cold War to disrupt and destroy terrorist cells. Add to that military strikes when necessary (most especially to eliminate WMD), financial sleuthing to screw up their funding, and the right diplomatic pressure in the right places at the right time, and it's a done deal.

[habs4ever]

9/11 made it a shooting war, not another Cold War.Its way beyond double games, and MADD calculations, embargos and the like.Waiting for economic forces to create the implosion of their societies isn't on.The regimes will have to be toppled, for all our collective security, and sooner the better.

[novakeo]

we have to do the same sort of down and dirty CIA work as in the Cold War

Like creating the Bin Laden's of this world, right?