Iraq and the General War on Terror

The Corner ^ | 6/1/08 | Victor Davis Hanson

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BTTT

[BOBTHENAILER]

Great post. Hanson nails it.

[yldstrk]

yep yep

[rlmorel]

Yes, for an old Stainist, his is right on top of this one...:)

[Wiseghy]

This matches with the internal intelligence analysts I’ve read.

After all the problems with CIA, all the intelligence sources are providing honest feedback as an CYA. AQ is mostly toast. No doubt about it. They would never, ever say it unless it was so, since a big attack now would prove them all liars and end their careers.

AQ has expended their last load trying to pull another “tet”, but no one noticed.

[Congressman Billybob]

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[Elsiejay]

What is a “Stainist?”

[VRWC For Truth]

Bush Derangement Syndrome

[rlmorel]

LOL...umm...a maoist who cannot get his pants down fast enough???

I just mistyped...I meant a “Stalinist”

[Paladin2]

Perhaps the imminent closure of Club Gitmo is bad for recruiting?

[bruinbirdman]

I remember when someone said, "Bring 'em on" and words to the effect, "Better to fight 'em over there than here." He threw in some other pearls of wisdom, too.

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[Rembrandt]

“What is a “Stainist?””
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That’s a lousy saxophone player, lousy golfer, gigolo and, as it happens, President of the U.S. who uses a teenager’s dress as a napkin.

[Dawnsblood]

That was an excellent article. Mr. Paine seemed very unhappy with the US later on though. My best:)

[Southack]

For perspective, what the news media *isn’t* saying is that over in the peaceful beach paradise of Brazil, 104 people are shot dead each night.

You read that right; each night. 38,000 people per year are being shot to death in Rio and its sister Brazilian cities.

...but in the Iraq war zone...the U.S. lost 15 soldiers to combat (19 overall) in the entire month of May.

[BOBTHENAILER]

For perspective, what the news media *isn’t* saying is that over in the peaceful beach paradise of Brazil, 104 people are shot dead each night.

Yep The "Perception Management" MSM can fool some of the people some of the time, but not us. Makes me wanna holler.

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[Billthedrill]

If it continues to work the Iraq intervention will be considered a geostrategic ploy as significant as the Marshall Plan. That may take years to emerge, sadly because such a large percentage of media and academia have grown bloated and incapable of admitting that their members were mistaken.

This won't solve the Middle East's problems, and it was never intended to do so. But it may stop what seemed five years ago like an inevitable slide into Lebanon-style bloody chaos, wherein a police state under a tyrant would be regarded as a welcome relief. There are parts of the Middle East where even now that slide seems inevitable. Iraq isn't one of them.

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