Of all the various pundits out there. O'Reilly is the least credible, most annoying with his patronizing "looking out for the folks" crap.
Now, as to the war in Iraq. We haven't had another successful attack on our soil since 9/11. That closes that part of the case in my opinion.
We are killing bad guys and at least delaying the day when one of these islamic countries get real nuclear capability. If and when that happens, we may regret not having simply annihilated the region. The effort to bring a different way of life to these people is a noble one and I hope it's successful. I honor those willing to make the sacrifice necessary toward the effort because the only real alternative is that we are forced by craven politicians to withdraw which will mean having to go back later and neutralize the enemy with devastating force.
Stein lost me recently too. His latest rant in Am Spec he calls for Rummy to be brought up on chargew.
Disgusting.
Sometimes I think Ben needs his meds adjusted.
Nothing all that "Noble" about it, at least not from a grand strategy point of view. We are doing it to cut off the supply of Jihadies at the source. I don't think even we could kill enough of them to cut off the supply by sheer numbers. Except by using Nukes, and maybe not even then, but either way, we aren't about to turn the place into a great big sheet of silica glass. In the end several important patches of it may get that treatment, but not the whole thing. At least this go around. Later, if we aren't successful this time, maybe.