Posted by Sigismund on September 23, 2007, at 15:38:09
In reply to Re: The Leader of the Free World, posted by caraher on September 23, 2007, at 8:47:55
Where will the war on terror be won?
That's the wrong question for which there is no answer.
The war on terror will be lost (unless it's forgotten first, like the war on poverty?), and perhaps is designed to be lost, like the wars on drugs, cancer, and the others I can't remember. The main thing is to appeal to the martial valour of the people.
(Can this be right? The Fox News mindset? Does *it* have martial valour?)
No, clearly, the main thing is the contracts and the cash.So anyway, let's rephrase.
The constituency most likely to be receptive to Al Quaeda ideas...where do they live? In Birmingham, or Saudi Arabia or Indonesia?If this is a war of ideas, we seem to be doing our best to lose it as quickly as possible.
People say this is not like Vietnam, but one similarity is the repeated contradiction of the Administration's assertions by reality.
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