Posted on 06/22/2004 9:47:27 AM PDT by Maigrey
Breaking from Al Jazeera.
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No, I don't realize that. Not yet. The experiment in Iraq is just a-borning and the one in Afghanistan is embryonic. Time will tell. To be honest, when I read a thread like this and see a mirror image of the same hysteria I see on the Left, my worry is that Osama bin Laden may have been right about post-Vietnam America. My hero, Ronald Reagan, didn't believe that, and I don't want to believe it either. But the hysteria is most disheartening — especially the knee-jerk blame-Bush garbage.
Thanks, Oceanview.
Perhaps you can tell us why it is OK for us to flatten cities in retaliation for terrorist murders, and it's wrong when the Germans (from their perspective) did exactly the same thing at Lidice. I don't expect an objective, thoughtful answer from you, but perhaps you can surprise me.
explosions in Fallujah:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1158124/posts?page=1
I have no reason to believe the ROK reputation is still as strong as it was in Vietnam. They had a well deserved reputation in Vietnam as the baddest asses in country, and the NVA would leave the field of battle if they found out they were up against ROKs, particularly ROK Marines.
Yeah, I know it's been used tons but the analogy is very important. While we dick around with worrying about which Iraqi POW, who previously attempted to kill our guys, might be humiliated because he had panties put on his head, the bad guys are actively fighting against us. The leftists are willingly supporting the bad guys efforts. They've provided the type of propoganda the Nazi's could have only hoped for.
Thus, the need to continue to compare our missteps with their murders. Size and scope are everything.
Confirmation: Coalition initiated air strikes on safe houses, according to Kimmet.
Target and destroy safe house of Zarqawi terrorist network. Unk if Zarq was present.
Does he mean the U.S. media?
Certainly not the military or political strategery.
LOL! We aren't talking those puppies with flippers type seals, are we?
"Number of pieces of Intelligence that Zarqawi was still operating out of Falluja."
By the time it is "over" (whatever the heck that means), the U.S. will only be able to maintain order by using ruthless means (through Arab surrogates, of course).
It's important to remember that the defining photo from the Vietnam War doesn't have any Americans in it . . . it's the photo of the South Vietnamese cop shooting a suspected Viet Cong guerrilla in the head. These things have a way of sorting themselves out regardless of our best intentions.
"sure, I can see the baby boomer children of US liberals signing up to fight in the war. don't force us into a war we might not be able to win, unless you are advocating we commit WMD genocide against them."
No. Regular genocide will do.
Seriously though.
I prefer to bring this to a head, than to "die by a thousand cuts" as is happening now. C'mon! The silent approval, and veiled applause of the Muslim populations has to be called.
Why not force the hand?
I would rather see massive war now, than live with this BS going on and on and on for the next 100 years.
Child, re your #491, the posts of yours that I happen to catch here and on other threads are invariably hostile to GWB. That is your privilege. Mine, at long last, is to say, "we get it, we get it." Whatever your inner thoughts, those you share with us lead to only one conclusion.
Regardless what the Geneva Convention says, there is no such thing as innocent civilians or noncombatants during war. America's use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved more lives than it took and broke the will of our enemy, the Japanese. Now they respect us, fear us and work with us. Dresden had a similar effect on the Germans.
Nope, couldn't make that, it would have been nostalgic for sure.
This is a small world indeed.
Sigh. Why is it that you people can see no other options than appeasement or atrocity? Are you really that dense?
There is no need to act like nazis, which is what many on this thread are proposing we do.
What I did propose (somewhere way upthread) is to do what Israel is doing to Hamas: continue to kill the gun-toters by the hundreds and thousands, and try harder to kill their leaders (and we are probably already doing that).
Lol. Thanks for the grin. (^:
I did read a fine AP human interest story last night about two New Jersey Soldiers who just returned from Iraq, were quoted supporting the war. So, perhaps another hopeful sign of 'regime change' in the mainstream press - AP hiring reporters who can tell the difference between ally and enemy.
Quick! Buy him a computer!
Shooting twenty of their's is wimping out. Better that for everyone they behead-we behead twenty of their's-just above the navel.
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