[Aquinasfan]

Are we safer now than we were before we began to fight back against the terrorists? Perhaps not, just as we were not safer when we began to resist Hitler, prompting him to declare war on us. Back then, we were not safer until we had won. And we will not be safe now until we have defeated the terrorists and their backers.

Is this really so hard to understand?

[Mr. Jeeves]

Perhaps even the decision to take on Iraq after Afghanistan was a strategic mistake in the larger war. It might have been better to have concentrated on overthrowing Iran's mullahs or forcing Syria out of Lebanon. In World War II, Allied leaders and commanders debated fiercely which fronts to concentrate on and in what order.

There isn't a Leftist in America who gets this concept - that sooner or later, all of these countries have to be taken out for us to win the war. Whether Bush did Iraq in the right order or not, it's just one piece of the puzzle, like taking Sicily before invading Italy in WWII. The Left's arguments against Iraq betray their true desire - for the US to just surrender to terrorism, in the hope that we can buy a few more years of peace.

[LincolnLover]

I wouldn't say that someone who accuses the person most responsible for aggressively bringing the Cold War to a premature end (sooner than it would have otherwise) by fighting the enemy both directly and by proxy in places like Afghanistan, El Salvador, Grenada and Nicaragua as being timid and uncommitted to our nation's security "gets" it, but it's a nice piece nonetheless.

[bad company]

Come....come to the dark side my son....

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

An interesting article, and even more so given where it was printed.

[EdReform]

read later...