Big Kahunas

C J Campbell wrote:

A little editorial quote from Max Boot in the Wall Street Journal on the
subject:

"The most compelling evidence of the success of President Bush's trip to
Iraq was the reaction of the opposition. No, not the Iraqi opposition --
or "resistance," as the French have taken to calling it. I mean the
American opposition: the Democrats and the news media.

The former were forced to concede that, as a John Edwards adviser put it,
the visit was a "daring move and great politics." In a pathetic attempt to
find something negative to say, Howard Dean's spokesman sound-bited as
follows: "This visit won't change the fact that those brave men and women
should never have been fighting in Iraq in the first place." Thanks,
Howard. I'm sure the troops appreciate your support."

That's the trouble with what passes for political discourse nowadays, the
notion that other side is _always_ wrong.

I thought it was a nice gesture. I could choose to see it as political
grandstanding as he will certainly get mileage out of it, but I don't.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar....
--
Frank....H

In article , Martin Hotze
writes:


"Montblack" wrote:

It's all about China folks. If you don't think so, just wait a few more
years...you'll see.

chinese teenage population outnumbers the total population of the USA. Well,
calculate what will happen in 1 or 2 generations.


We probably would have been better off leaving them as communists. Teaching
them capitalism takes the hobbles off.

--
Wm. Donald (Don) Tabor Jr., DDS
PP-ASEL
Chesapeake, VA - CPK, PVG

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Fleischman writes:


In article , Wdtabor
wrote:

To use pre-emption, you must be capable of a decisive blow. Should N. Korea
launch its 3 nukes at us tomorrow, (assuming they have them and the
delivery
capability), they would sting us, but we would then dump such nuclear fire
on
them that Godzilla's would be popping up as far away as the Aleutians.

On the other hand, we could, if that little gargoyle succeeding in really
frightening us, pre-emptively take them out.

Jesus, you sound like your mouth is watering at the thought of using
nuclear weapons. You can't seriously be advocating nuclear holocaust,
can you? Man, you are a nightmare. You remind me of the character Gen.
Buck Turgitsen in "Dr. Strangelove":

"I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, but it would be no
more than 20-30 million killed, tops".

You are scary, dude! You really creep me out.


Good.

That is the whole point of deterence.

If we are to live at peace, we must make sure the monsters of the world clearly
understand we have the ability AND the resolve to utterly destroy them if they
threaten us.

We cannot create a world where we sit and sing kumbaya and the monsters turn
into good guys. There will always be monsters wherever the good guys do
nothing. So the best we can do is to kill a few monsters now and then to bring
clarity to the minds of the others.

Don

--
Wm. Donald (Don) Tabor Jr., DDS
PP-ASEL
Chesapeake, VA - CPK, PVG