[Billthedrill]

Ralph Peters BTT. I'm just finishing Beyond Terror and I have Beyond Baghdad on deck. We see eye to eye on a lot of things, and I love his stuff.

We can't force Iraqis - or anyone else - to succeed, but we've done what no others have dared: We've given tens of millions of long-oppressed human beings a chance to live in freedom.
Much of this century will be shaped by what they make of that great chance.

The number of people who are desperate to see them fail is daunting, and for the most sordid and evil of reasons. These are not restricted to other authoritarians with a vested interest in their own power, but include the current international media and bureaucratic elites interested in theirs. But they have more friends than they know, or more properly, are being allowed to hear about.

[WorkingClassFilth]

BINGO! The entire 'village' concept will stand and remain, or be in critical danger of failing and being swept away, in the wake of the consequences of these foreign policy actions. I have no doubt that our own State Department is seeing a lot of midnight oil being burned looking for ways to undermine the White House in these policies.

[beckett]

He was on a panel discussion I watched on TV today. Doesn't look anything like the stereotype of a retired military officer, or even as one might expect him to look given the hard charging quality of his rhetoric. He's mild mannered, even a little nervous, but he acquitted himself well and displayed a strong intellect.

[Mia T]

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