[mpreston]

I'll support Steve on this. Everyone SHOULD know that there are two aspects to war - the Military front and the Psychological front. The psychological aspect is every bit as important as the military aspect. Vietnam comes to mind. Steve is simply arguing that we need to BE MORE AGGRESSIVE on the psychological war by taking it to the source of the Islamofascist, the Islamic clerics.

I suspect that Islam would not view this as playing nice.

[Steve_Seattle]

"I'll support Steve on this. Everyone SHOULD know that there are two aspects to war - the Military front and the Psychological front. The psychological aspect is every bit as important as the military aspect."

Thank you very much. I probably set myself up for some of the criticism by playing amateur psychiatrist, but you are right: the essential point is to aggressively challenge the character, the legitimacy, the intelligence, the hypocrisy, and the manhood of the Imams and other jihadists. We are losing the war of words, and need to go on the offense. Calling Islam "the religion of peace" is playing defense, and bad defense at that. We need to strike at their pride.

[Yaelle]

Steve is simply arguing that we need to BE MORE AGGRESSIVE on the psychological war by taking it to the source of the Islamofascist, the Islamic clerics.

I haven't read this whole thread so sorry for butting in. I remembered the John and Ken are going to be doing their radio show from a mosque in San Diego today, 3-7 p.m Pacific coast time (listen live on www.kfi640.com). They had been planning this before today's attacks. They are pretty irreverent and they want to talk live to American Muslims about terrorism. I believe this was the mosque where some of the 9/11 terrorists "worshipped." Should prove interesting.