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So, there's the problem. Personally, I blame TV for ruining people's attention spans, but that's neither here nor there. But now I ask, what's the solution? How does this administration keep people focused on what may still be a credible threat from abroad?

Some folks may very well assume that there is no threat from abroad any more, but that strikes me as just the sort of complacency that led to 9/11 in the first place. Eternal vigilance, and all that...

I can't help but wonder if this leak of the invasion plans for Iraq wasn't entirely accidental, and was a way of keeping everyone's eyes on the ball. Rummy seems genuinely peeved by it, but Rummy's a smooth character who could pull off "genuinely peeved" in public if he needed to, I think.

In any case, setting that aside, how does this administration keep people focused short of another Reichstag fire?

In any case, setting that aside, how does this administration keep people focused short of another Reichstag fire?

I don't think it can. There are, even now, people that will tell Reichstag fire if another attack is made. There are those that will yell "wag the dog" if and when we invade Iraq. The country has lost what focus it ever had and now it is back to politics, conspiracies and Oprah.

Blame the politicans for it for trying to fight Kinder and Gentler Wars. Yes I said that. If we had fought Italy, Japan, and Germany, like we are fighting now we would have lost. To be exact we sacraficed three wars to the Kinder and Gentler War concept. To put it in words and context it's meant to be in. War is Hell. It knows no innocents. You do not go in and try to judge who's who in a given area you take the area out with the least harm to your own. Says who you ask? My source would indeed suprise you. A moral war is one with a clear defined goal of victory and not a limited smack on the wrist to your enemy. That lesson was forgotten by our leaders in Korea, Nam, and The Gulf War. We purposely tied the very hands of the warriors we sent to fight just as we do now. Worse we as a nation judged them worse than our enemy we were fighting if they did not hold to this insane policy of fighting the war in a politically correct manner. For that we paid a price of still having our enemy to torment us. They laugh at our leaders lack of resolve and test it often.

If we're going to talk war let's define it. I find no better definitions of war than by pehaps the greatest military general to grace this earth. When he fought to win he won. His battle plan was given to him and he left death and destruction in his wake. His hands were not tied in a PC mire of special rules of engagement. His name was Joshua. Our leaders would do this nation a big service to learn his stratagies and use them.

Yes this is the way wars have been fought for centuries. Up till the mid part of this century to be exact. Funny we spared not even our own brothers & sons not so long ago in our nations history in a civil war. Why? Because we considered the belief or disagreement worth fighting for AT ALL COST!

Now we base our enemy on some vauge report of factions within a nation listed on a state department report? If the nation harbors them the nation is our enemy. THAT IS WAR. You destroy that nation with a vengance. The next nation wanting to cross you thinks twice. I suspect this post to have a short life. But the subject of war was brought up and I think this serves as a reminder to just how far we are off course on this matter of our nations survival.