[moneyrunner]

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[expatpat]

I guess the anti-war wimps in the US actually hurt the country more than most of us realize.

[vollmond]

It is a chance to show, once and for all, that the Americans are a strong, proud, brave, and unwavering people. And that if you hit them, they will not run. They will fight. Honorably, honestly, and righteously.

In a time and place of our choosing, with overwhelming firepower directed at the correct targets, sparing as much of the innocent as possible, and willing to help rebuild a peaceful and free society when we're done.

[denydenydeny]

Bump. Thanks for posting this.

[Wonder Warthog]

"It is a chance to show, once and for all, that the Americans are a strong, proud, brave, and unwavering people. And that if you hit them, they will not run. They will fight. Honorably, honestly, and righteously."

More accurately stated--Americans are all of the above AND they are VERY slow to anger, but, once aroused, they are terrible adversaries.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This is why the current war in Iraq is so vital, even beyond the important objectives of liberating the Iraqi people and containing a brutal dictator who has been building up weapons of mass destruction (which would of course be reasons enough). It is also an opportunity for the United States to destroy the perception that it is a weak, incapable power that will not fight back if attacked.

And an excellent opportunity to expose Islamists for the sniveling cowards that they are, as they scatter like cockroaches into the Iraqi woodwork.

[LS]

Like the Democrats, I think the third-world tinpots and the terroists need a new playbook. Those wars were conducted under DEMOCRATIC "regimes" (to use Bob Kerry's words).

The wheel has turned.

[Mr. Mojo]

allowed a perception to develop that the U.S. would not defend itself or fight back against those who attacked it.

Yep....and the author neglected to mention our doing absolutely nothing about the 241 Marines who were killed by a suicide/homicide bomber in Lebanon in '83. Reagan's first instinct was to retaliate harshly against Syria, but Weinberger successfully convinced him that our Saudi "friends" would be none too happy about such an approach. This non-action convinced Islamoterrorists worldwide that we were too weak-minded to fight them, and encouraged them to commit more ambitious atrocities.

I'm a big Gipper fan, but this was undoubtedly his worst moment.

[Publius6961]

but because they allowed a perception to develop that the U.S. would not defend itself or fight back against those who attacked it.

And if Algore had been elected, it is a perfectly reasonable and accurate perception.
Bombs would be exploding around him and he would be out destroying those evil SUVs.

[SlickWillard]

This chick is really hot [and sports some damned fine jugs], but she can't seem to decide on a 'do:

The American Enterprise

Institute for Justice

The Iconoclast

[submarinerswife]

We give lend too much credence to the Anti-War weinies. It is the situation in Vietnam, Somalia and crappy diplomacy panedering that gave that perception to Al-Quieda. THANK YOU BILL CLINTON!!!! I hope that Afganistan and Iraq will make them understand that we won't hesitate...ever again to smash them.

[Nick Danger]

I’m talking neat, glistening newscaster hair, with every piece in its proper place... a table covered with a cheerful blue gingham picnic cloth dotted with painted-on daisies and black-eyed susans

[Cicero]

Of course we already have heard this, and it's very much to the point. But there is one thing here that I never really thought through before, and it's extremely important:

He and his followers saw the defeat of the Soviet Union as a triumph of Muslims over infidels due to the Muslims’ success in Afghanistan.

In other words, the Islamists are under the illusion that they (not Ronald Reagan, the Poles, and the Pope) defeated the USSR as well as sent the Clintonoid US packing. No wonder they are delusional. That goes far to explain Chechnya and Kosovo, too.

[Always Right]

This is an important point, but one that Peaceniks will never comprehend.

[MissAmericanPie]

When you have a liberal dit like Clinton or Carter in office, with no clear moral insight, you have a president that will misuse, misjudge, and sully the preception of America as being decadent and weak. Liberal's are a dangerous threat to the safety of America because they are morally void and intellectually flawed.