[fallujah-nuker]

Accordingly, if you wanted a test market for the WOT political strategy, Iraq would be it.

You define the enemy as "terror" when in fact the enemy is radical Islam. That would be the equivalent as declaring war upon blitzkrieg rather than Nazi Germany. Terror is a tactic, not a foe. The Islamofascists can be forgiven for doubting our resolve when we do not have the national will to define our enemy.

[Alberta's Child]

You define the enemy as "terror" when in fact the enemy is radical Islam. That would be the equivalent as declaring war upon blitzkrieg rather than Nazi Germany. Terror is a tactic, not a foe. The Islamofascists can be forgiven for doubting our resolve when we do not have the national will to define our enemy.

Amen, brother. Repeat this point far and wide.

A "war on terror" is likely to be about as successful as all the other "wars" this country has fought against inanimate objects, ideas, and elements of the human condition ("war on poverty," "war on drugs," etc.).