Wdtabor wrote:
In article , jim rosinski
writes:


Because the "war on terror" is a guerilla war It is not possible to
kill all the terrorists, for the reasons Mr. Harlow says, and also
because killing them can mean unintentionally killing an equivalent
number of good guys in the process.



Actually, the way to win a guerilla war is to draw the enemy out onto the field
where you can fight them, rather than allow them to hide among the
non-combatants.

That is what is happening. In return for getting rid of Saddam for them, we are
using Iraq as our battlefield. The Islamofascists cannot allow a free,
capitalist, representative republic to succeed in Iraq. A prosperous,
comparatably wealthy Iraq, with the rule of law, capitalism and free trade, and
individual liberty in the heart of the Islamic world would be envied, and thus
hated, much as Israel is now. So, whatever the cost, they must attempt to
prevent that from happening. That means they have to come out and fight, and as
they do, we can destroy them. I would not invest in property in Fallujah just
now. That trap is almost full and ready to be emptied.

So, like him or not, Bush has some smart folks working for him. Iraq is not
Vietnam, it is what we learned from Vietnam. It will take time and casualties
to do it, but we will win this war following this plan, and we will do it over
there where the monster lives rather than in our own cities.



Have you ever heard of Israel or Northern Ireland? The IRA terrorists
have been in Ireland since 1917. How come they just don't wipe them out?
How come the British are cutting their forces by 1/3 in Iraq? And they
currently only have 7000 there compared to our 150,000 !

Arabs don't want a democratic free society. They want a theocracy based
on the Koran and are willing to die to prove it. A democratic society
would go strongly against the grain of the Islamic faith and the Koran
in the eyes of most Arabs.

However, if the aim is to extinguish terrorists and blood thirsty
dictators, why don't we launch an invasion on Saudi Arabia? They are
conducting public beheadings daily and are a known nest of terrorists.

Oh, but I forgot: we can't go to war with the Saudi's because prince
Bandar or "Bandar Bush" as he is referred to amongst the Bush's , is
just too nice a guy to attack.

Bush learned nothing from Viet Nam. We will loose this war because it is
not winnable by war tactics. You cannot kill every arab that hates
democracy!! The Arab nations are grooming and educating the next
generations of terrorists right now to hate us. And when the costs of
war go spiraling out of control and we run with our tail between our
legs (just as we did in Viet Nam) after spending billions we will have
accomplished what? There will still be millions of Muslim's that hate
us. "How do you end that hate?" is the real question. And the answer is
definitely NOT "kill more Arabs".

Landslide...still my prediction. And not because they love Kerry either
but because they fear where Bush is taking this great country of ours.

take care,
Antonio