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Is America prepared to pay the price of empire?

What in the hell is this guy talking about? Empire??

But demonstrations in Jordan, Egypt, Indonesia and Morocco have lately grown ominous.

All that proves is that their chanting skills have improved. Go ahead. Let them get all jazzed up, give em some guns, and let them in mass (pleeez!)do an Islamist Banzi charge. We've got the tools to fix it.

As the bombing of Baghdad grows more intense, and more bombs and missiles fall far from their targets and land on markets, malls, mosques, schools or hospitals, this is going to get worse.

Well, Mr. Ishouldabeenpresident, on what evidence do you base this stretch of your imagination? Jeez! Don't you have a chicken farm or something where you can shovel this sht?

I am fully in support of the Bush Doctrine and of this war. I have been consistently posting that we must deal with Iran and North Korea after Irak because they are near or in the nuclear club and both have shown they will have truck with terrorists.

But I would like to see or hear some reason, some logic and not just bluster why the Bush Doctrine has not reached its high water mark.

Show me some part of the world which will not be arrayed against us. Tell me that America will be willing to make war against a crazed nuclear North Korea without allies. Explain how we can win Europe over to face down the ayatollahs with us.

Explain how the American media will become shamed into silence and how the domocrat party will go into eclipse just because we have won an overwhelming victory in Irak. We won one 12 years ago and the Dems paid no price and the press learned no shame. Explain how Bush can muster the domestic support to carry his policy into the teeth of the world's opposition.

Believe it or not, I want to be convinced that I am wrong and I hope I am wrong but bluff and bluster just doesn't cut it.

"The American people seem more mature than the talking heads about what will be needed to win. And if the United States can win this war in a month or six weeks – still possible given the steady attrition of the Republican Guard and the Baghdad regime under U.S. bombing, and the buildup of men and armor around Baghdad – what is being said now will not matter. Of greater concern is opinion in the Islamic world."

Why are those who oppose the President always so concerned about our enemies opinion. Perhaps they are more concerned about their own opinion?

Once Iraq is "liberated" there will be a brief honeymoon that will last no longer than a month, then the Shiites are going to decide that the Iraqi middle class that our government is going to be depending on for the rebuilding of this country, are no-good infidels and they will be attacking this middle class. After that, the Kurds are going to decide they want their own country and they'll start border problems with Turkey just to get it. Our troops will be smack dab in the middle of this and our resources would be spread to thin to deal with Iran or North Korea.