[Pokey78]

To quote Mel Brooks in "History of the World. Part 1"..."It's good to be the King!"

[Lurker]

Dear Mr. Young:

P*** off.

We don't care what you think.

Regards,

L

[Keith]

ok. We have saved their asses in TWO count them TWO world wars, and stood with them on the Falklands war against those known terrorists, the Argentinians, trying to make the world safe for sheepherders and penguins.

F*** them...next war, they are on their own if they puss out on this one.

[Shuhite]

isn't a totally off-base article...

[blondee123]

to the author of that article:

i would suggest, if these other countries were being sent anthrax & being threatened with major catastrophies every other week, they might also sing a different tune!!

[Keith]

Translation...waaaaaahhh...we were much happier when WE were the world power and the world had to answer to Britain...waaaaahhhhh.

[RLK]

Well, Saddam should have been finished off ten years ago, but wasn't.

I hear people here and see written speculation we should hit Iraq and/or Pakistan. Is there to be a war with the entire Islamic world?

[xm177e2]

Bush's slavering passion for specific eliminations. The president is mobilising an American national will such as we have not recently seen

"Slayvering Passion"
Starring: George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Osama bin Laden, Mullah "Cyclops" Omar, and the lovable "Northern Alliance"
Be sure not to miss the memorable performance by the United States Air Force, which is sure to win a Rummy for "best supporting airstrikes"

Tune in next week for a very special episode, "Slayvering Passion: Return to Darul Harb", guest starring Saddam Hussein, Tariq Aziz, and the Iraqi opposition which we betrayed last time.

"Slayvering Passion 3: The Terrorists Strike Back" has been postponed indefinitely.

[mlo]

Europeans should reflect on this as a measure of the hard-eyed national commitment that differentiates the American mood from that of any other country. This, rather than the diplomatic niceties of coalition building, will mainly determine what happens next.

That's right. Now don't p*ss us off.

[LiberalBassTurds]

We'd have to lose a helluva lot of freedoms to be on par with the UK. For this knucklehead to even touch this issue shows his lack of knowledge or objectiviry. Isn't it funny that one of the initial suspects in causing/at the center of the uprising in the mazar fort yesterday was a Guardian UK reporter.

[TUX]

The big war should be a internal one. We must champion energy independance. Freedom from Middle Eastern dependancy will go far in solving our problems. As well as threats/actions of destruction, cutting off the oil tap could grind our ecomony and way of life to a halt. The Arabs have little revenue sources other than oil. Cut off the money and cut off the threats. Much better and cheaper than troops and bombs.

[freebilly]

One proof of this is what encroachments on their liberties Americans are willing to put up with. Protests against the repressive gospel according to the attorney general, John Ashcroft, are few and far between. A country that guards its constitutional freedoms with meticulous passion is prepared to surrender them with pious indifference. So easy is such submission to raison d'état that the quiet torture of recalcitrant suspects surely cannot be far behind.

He would prefer we didn't close our borders or detain Middle Easterners who fit a profile?

When someone sets off a suitcase nuke in downtown London, this idiot will be the first to ask why British Intelligence wasn't able to stop the terrorists from succeeding. Maybe then someone will finally speak the truth and say "thousands died just so Britain wouldn't look insensitive."

[dynamitehack]

Far from this campaign yielding a new concert of civilised nations, it will emphasise the deafening control of the trumpeter and conductor.
The British piccolo, in particular, will find it harder to be heard. The band continues to play in rough harmony,
but only on condition that it follows the unilateral beat of the big bass drum.

What the hell is he talking about!!
This is a war, not a gosh dern concert!!!
dh

[etcetera]

The towelheads should have let sleeping dogs lie. That they didn't is now THEIR problem. And since America was attacked, no one should entertain thoughts about telling Americans how far we should go.

[piasa]

I think Mr. Young is grossly underestimating the British commitment of forces in Afghanistan. And elsewhere...

Outside of that, I rather like getting a whiff of the scent of fear in his writing. It means we're on the right track.

[Don Myers]

Who has watched Starship Troopers, a movie made from a Robert Heinlein story? The Islamics are our allegorical bugs, and its going to be a long war.

[Nick Danger]

To quote Mel Brooks in "History of the World. Part 1"..."It's good to be the King!"

It's obvious that this author is appalled by what he sees, but I give him credit for understanding it, and for understanding its implications.

It is probably true that we are at a moment in history when every single nation on this planet could gang up on us, and although they would deliver some mighty blows, in the end they would all be dead, and we would not. I don't say that to be boastful, I'm merely pointing out the same piece of realpolitik that the author did.

There has been a pleasant fiction in Europe for several decades now, which we have indulged so as not to seem arrogant, that what they think matters. What this author is facing, and we might even say 'admitting to,' is that Europe's importance in these matters is a pleasant fiction, and that at the end of the day, the now almost single-minded focus of the United States to rid the world of people who would come over here and kill thousands of our people, is what will decide what happens next. It is the only thing that will decide what happens next.

The long snouts at the New York Times will surely join with their European brethren in expressing horror that we would use our vast military might to go anywhere, to break anything, to bomb aside all opposition if necessary, to rid the Earth of these terrorists. But that is what we are going to do. And the author is right that there's not one damned thing that anybody else can do about it.

Those who wish may come along as allies. If at some point they get cold feet and don't want to be allies anymore, that's fine; we didn't need them anyway. We were giving them an opportunity to make their loyalties known. We'll happily move the drop-outs to the 'no' pile, and move on. What we won't do is let them tell us what we're going to do about people coming over here and blowing things up. At this point, with us, it's "lead, follow, or get out of the way." The author is to be applauded for facing that reality. Too many of them over there are still in Fantasyland on this subject.

[truth_seeker]

When it comes to longtime resentment of Judeo-Christian nations, Britain must be near the top of the Islamist list. That they haven't (yet) been terror-struck may well be due to their providing such a cozy nest, for the European Muslim terror-vipers.

But if they get hit big, I expect UK public opinion would reach the US levels, for swift, deadly, firm, unrelenting pursuit of the satanic Islamists. Same for Germany, Italy, Holland, but not likely the Franks.

[kaylar]

Swift smashing of the Taliban can't plausibly be seen as a platform for reneging on Republican hostility to either the comprehensive test ban treaty or the international criminal court. On the contrary. .

Yesssss!!! Our main enemies (euroleftist trash, worse than Muslims or the Chinese IMHO) are starting to see the writing on the wall...Now, if they'd just see that we are NOT going to sign onto Kyoto, and we are NOT going to gut the First Amendment to suit their internet laws, we'll get along fine. Oh, and we're not going to "pool" or national sovereignty into a UN OWG.