[George W. Bush]

Trade alone will not stamp out the scourge of the evil political death cult of 7th century Mohammadanism, nor with tinpot dictators like Hugo Chavez trying to proliferate failed 19th century Marxist tyranny.

And yet, we're so overextended in Iraq we couldn't help Taiwan if we needed to. We can't give the kind of attention to the Chavez regime and his anti-American neighbors. And we are hardly in any position to put boots on the ground in Iran either. That would be fundamentalist terror-state Iran with a huge and credible nuke program being developed in well-shielded underground labs. Unlike Iraq which had no such programs and which was a secular Arab dictatorship.

A lot is being neglected while we are in Iraq. And we've tarnished our own image, as much with the citizens of other nations as their governments.

[KDD]

Not to mention playing kissy face with that third and most dangerous member of the “axis of evil”, North Korea.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Fact is, they’re ALL threats. Some are easier to deal with than others. The CIA could dispatch Chavez tomorrow if they had the courage and strength to do it. You don’t need a massive armed invasion there. We should’ve made an example to the Mohammadan world by turning Mecca into a sheet of glass on September 12th, 2001. Adios and Allah Akbar.

As for a tarnished reputation, it’s that same business-as-usual UN-appeasing leftist filth (both domestic and abroad) that is the epicenter of the badmouthing, and nobody else. Sorry to rock their boat, but that ain’t Bush’s fault (his guilt, to them, at least, is having won 2 Presidential elections). He’s only just begun to sweep up the trash, and you see the unbridled hate he gets for it. Nope, they only like us when we have sexual predators and incompetent anti-Semitic abominations in the White House (for those DU twits who don’t understand English, that’s Clintoon and Carter). Yup, we elect Hillary and she goes and atones for the sin of Bush, gives Chavez a big hug and kiss, and to the filth, all will be right with the world. You can just smell the sulphur, can’t ya ?

[BlackElk]

One nuclear boomer and its missiles will suffice to incinerate enough of red china to deter attacks on Taiwan so long as we refrain from putting some spineless antiwar antiAmerican twit like paleoPaulie in charge. Taiwan need not lose sleep. No one will actually remember Sodamn bin Paulie by that time.

Most other nations and their citizens are cordially invited to perform anatomically impossible acts upon themselves. Who gives a d___ what they think?

We won't likely get the chance to perform a nuclearweaponsectomy on Iran because Israel will beat us to it although I hope we help.