Posted by DSCH on December 17, 2003, at 12:27:23
In reply to Re: Atleast we have some good news.. Saddam captured!, posted by Psychopoppy on December 17, 2003, at 1:23:29
Is the entire resistence going to fold immediatelty because of Saddam's capture? No. But that doesn't mean that it isn't a step in the right direction. Everyone seems to be wailing that any one thing doesn't solve all the problems in one fell swoop (remember the second week of the invasion "We aren't in Baghdad yet, everythings going wrong!"); as if a Democrat in George Bush's position would bring out a magic wand and make everything better with a bloodless wave of it and make every terrorist in the world love us. Aint gonna happen, people.
Refreshingly commonsensical talk from a self-professed Democrat, Orson Scott Card, sf writer ("Ender's Game" series).
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110004435
"But then I watch the steady campaign of the national news media to try to win this for the Democrats, and I wonder. Could this insane, self-destructive, extremist-dominated party actually win the presidency? It might--because the media are trying as hard as they can to pound home the message that the Bush presidency is a failure--even though by every rational measure it is not.
And the most vile part of this campaign against Mr. Bush is that the terrorist war is being used as a tool to try to defeat him--which means that if Mr. Bush does not win, we will certainly lose the war. Indeed, the anti-Bush campaign threatens to undermine our war effort, give encouragement to our enemies, and cost American lives during the long year of campaigning that lies ahead of us.
Osama bin Laden's military strategy is: If you make a war cost enough, Americans will give up and go home. Now, bin Laden isn't actually all that bright; his campaign to make us go home is in fact what brought us into Afghanistan and Iraq. But he's still telling his followers: Keep killing Americans and eventually, antigovernment factions within the United States will choose to give up the struggle.
It's what happened in Somalia, isn't it? And it's what happened in Vietnam, too."
My brother was on the staff of the 3rd MAW during the invasion. Two months from now he will be back in western Iraq.
Pardon me, but I must return to nursing on this drum of Halliburton crude. ;-)
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