Posted on 12/26/2006 6:58:34 AM PST by meg88
I know that.
But, the Admin allowed the MSM/Dems to wrestle the event from them and make it into somethe else -- a recurring weakness with this Admin. It keeps allowing the MSM and opposition party to frame the debates; then it tries to catch up by playing defense.
Ethiopian was an adequate air force and have been using it effectively.
And, for what it's worth, an unmarked AC-130 has been spotted in the area.
I hear it everyday, "it doesn't take four years to train an army".
Maybe it doesn't take four years to train a soldier but the military isn't run by trainees. It's run by crusty old master sergeants with 20+ years of experience and career officers with a lifetime of service. Many of our military are second and third generation, and you are not going to get that kind of commitment overnight.
I believe we are progressing very well and the problem is the unrealistic expectation that are being promoted by the opposition within the USA.
Carthago delenda est.
"Let's hope they don't have a Democratic Party."
They won't need one of their own - they'll have ours.
Can somebody enlighten us Freepers a little about Ethiopia? I thought all the people there were starving because of the repressive government. But now they are Christian warriors? What's the deal?
Well, I can't disagree with you on that one.
How do you fight a war against an enemy that considers running away to be a tactic, and who doesn't care if you kill them and everybody else around them?
How do you make someone surrender when they want to die, and have nothing on this earth they care about?
How can you remove islamic terrorists from a country once they are infiltrated, when they hide among the people you are trying to save?
Islamic fundamentalism is like a cancer you simply can't beat. You can kill it, but only by killing the patient.
Remember the stories about robots taking over the world, and how you couldn't beat them because they had no soul, no reason, no compassion, and no sense of preservation? That's what this war against islamic fundamentalism is all about.
Borg or (original) Cylons
They may be from science fiction, but there are parallels, and maybe lessons we can learn from them.
Leave it to the the MSM and the islamics. They will find some ludacris way to rewrite history to make it a victory for Somolia.
It looks like we are already in a world war, just not a conventional one.
Target rich environment for Apaches and Warthogs. Perhaps we could temporarily loan them a few dozen.
Good news.
I hear James Baker needs work...
That's why some here on FR liked the term "Islamozoid" over "Islamofascist". At least a fascist is human...sort of.
It would seem we have our own form of PC here as well. :^)
Islamism delenda est. Iustus amo cartago.
I see that this morning, the MSM are predictably trashing Ethiopia for doing this claiming its so the "america-backed" Prime Minister of Ethiopia can stay in power by attacking the peaceful nation building somolis.
Seattle-Times did a total hit piece on the Ethiopian PM this morning.
"Well, just to set the record straight, we won the war in Iraq in mid 2003."
Right.
Unfortunately we didn't expand it to Iran and Syria and are now paying the consequences.
As for reconstruction, we should have left it a smoldering ruin, along with Iran and Syria, and let the Euroweenies and Coffee Annan worry about the clean-up - or maybe the oil rich Saudis to the south.
We shouldn't have been suckered into playing their nurse maids. One of Bush II's biggest mistakes.
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