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The 1 weapon essential for victory: Just wonders of Americans have stomach for what lies ahead
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Friday, February 21, 2003 | Bob Just

Posted on 02/20/2003 10:36:06 PM PST by JohnHuang2

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To: JohnHuang2
You know, I can't help but notice that Americans can be pushed too far; that there may be an edge at which we arrive together, beyond which we, as a people, are just freakin' mad, and when we get mad we get unified; and when we get unified, look out.

I think part of the division, bickering, anti-marching has to do with free-floating anxiety due to living with the unknown.

However, I say, just one more 9-11 and the fury of a free people just might be unleashed. Remember those first days afterwards? Division ceased. We were uniformly filled with righteous anger.

I pray such devastation won't be visited on us, but if it is I don't think it will drive the wedge deeper. On the contrary, it might be a galvanizing event that our attackers would live (or not) to regret.

21 posted on 02/21/2003 5:55:26 AM PST by ncpastor
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To: JohnHuang2
Vo Nguyen Giap (also a military history teacher) defeated the United States of America without ever winning a major tactical battle.

Yeah, right, with invaluable help by Congressional Democrats. By the end of the U.S. engagement in Vietnam, the war had become largely conventional in nature and a stalemate had been reached. The South Vietnamese Army was promised sufficient material support to maintain the stalemate. But, gee, something intervened. In the wake of Watergate, Congress radically cut aid to South Vietnam. Cut off from needed support by a Democrat Congress, the South Vietnamese Army was unable to withstand encroachment by North Vietnam, which had not lost its funding source. The problems faced by the U.S. in Vietnam, though, were never of military origin. They were political. At least this part of the story above is right.
22 posted on 02/21/2003 6:10:52 AM PST by aruanan
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To: snickeroon
I don't believe terrorists would waste resources or risk exposure of their organization to knowingly do something that is easily covered up or mistaken to be an ordinary disaster, unless maybe it is to practice for future attacks. If people think it's an ordinary disaster then there is no terror.
23 posted on 02/21/2003 4:56:37 PM PST by The Red Zone
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To: Centurion2000
Of course the American Indians didn't have suicide bombers, bioweapons, airplane hijackers, or dirty bombs either.
24 posted on 02/21/2003 5:00:21 PM PST by The Red Zone
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To: Iris7
And anyone who is with the enemy, whether they live or were born in the United States, man, woman, or child, will be killed.

As it should be.

25 posted on 02/21/2003 5:28:05 PM PST by Euro-American Scum
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To: Unknowing
One more hit within our borders on such a scale as 9/11 and so many arguments for complacency and appeasement will disappear, IMHO.

You know, I thought the same thing right after 9/11 and look at things now.

I know. We're all hearing a lot about how the anti-war crowd is just a loud, radical minority that nobody listens to. They said the same thing about that punk Mario Savio in Berkely in 1964.

If we understand nothing else about the leftist America-bashers, understand this: They hate America. They hate everything America stands for. They will do anything to undermine this country, subvert the efforts of our military to destroy a dangerous enemy and do anything in their power to see this nation in ruins. They are traitors to everything this nation ever stood for, an enemy in every sense of the word and must be stopped.

It applies to the war protestors, the media, the Hollywood leftists, and the liberal intellectual academic elite. It was true in 1964, and it's true now. No difference.

Know your enemy before it's too late.

26 posted on 02/21/2003 5:36:12 PM PST by Euro-American Scum
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To: Euro-American Scum
I think that you are correct about seditionists. Maybe I'm the one that's been naive. There may be more of them than patriots. They infest our universities, flying their freak-flags, in the name of wisdom. The rot is thick in our public schools, as well, IMO. They may appear weak, but their iniquities are subtle.

Ironically, the mobilized war state may be the epitome of their "democratic socialist" socio-economic ideal, but they don't want it. Individualists don't like the war state, but our values compel us to strive against tyranny that it may be vanquished, so we commit.
27 posted on 02/21/2003 9:40:43 PM PST by Unknowing (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.)
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