This is what bothers you in life?

What bothers me is that 3 weeks ago, a history-book moment happened in NYC when Ahmadinajad actually prayed for the apocalypse in front of every world leader (which ended in applause!); and all the leaders of our country can do is bicker about some lecherous congressman’s perverted emails.

0.8% of American soldiers deployed to Iraq have died in 3 years while fighting bloodthirsty terrorists and its time to bail out and redeploy to Okinawa.

Lets get it together here. I don’t care who made what mistake when so long as we learn from it and fight harder. If republicans can’t admit mistakes which prevents them from learning and adapting then screw them. If Democrats love to point out mistakes but address them by foreiture of the battle at hand, then screw them too.

Aww, nevermind. Project runway is on.

If this struggle really is a struggle for our very existence as Bush claims then there are some very powerful yet very simple things he can do to fix it. He will not take those actions because this struggle is really about securing domestic support for a radical economic and social agenda. His real base will not allow such actions because that would derail their ambitions He would rather watch the terrorists regroup and succeed rather than concede that he must make amends with 1/2 the US population he has purposefully attacked to “win” two elections. The next time Bush or Cheney strikes out against the “Dem’s” and “leftiests” instead of actually addressing or fixing the real problems remember that is what allows us to lose Afghanistan and Iraq.

The Canadians are about 36 to 1500 now against Taliban (with the public here and CTV doing an hourly body count:

Clarification – CTV is only counting the Canadian bodies. I had to go to the Canadian government’s armed forces website for the other half of what George Carlin would call the “partial score.”

BTW: Isn’t it spelled Waziristan?

As for this:

The Taliban has made a comeback in the south and east of the country and is seriously threatening Western attempts to stabilize the country after almost three decades of war.

It ain’t true. Those parts of the country were ignored precisely because they were dangerous. Waiting for the Canadians, I guess, who are spectacular at these tough assignments. I figured US personnel were watching Jenin to see how it’s done. I guess the 23 to 52 score didn’t impress, and that’s natural. The Canadians are about 36 to 1500 now against Taliban (with the public here and CTV doing an hourly body count: talk about decadent!) and that’s a lot better. But they’re crying for help, which is partly for real, partly political so that the Liberals don’t accuse them of being unfeeling. It’s quite a comedy, Canadian politics!

Since the first gulf war and Bosnia, Americans have had this false belief that cataclysmic wars are over and now our military fights as if it were running errands to the grocery store. We treat any casualty on our side as a sign of incompitence rather than an inevitable sacrifice to achieve a neccessary goal. In an age of immidiate gratification and 30 second soundbites, if conflict isn’t resloved painlessly and quickly, then we must forfeit. We lack the resolve of our fathers’ and grandfathers’ generation as they grew up amidst suffering and sacrifice, while we have grown up with little-league games where noone keeps score and motzart for babies.

Our generation would have lost WWII no doubt. I am starting to believe that our civilization deserves to be destroyed by these bloodthirsty barbarians.

You are the very definition of an armchair general.

Hehe…you do remember that you’re on a blog, right?

The thing is, I was saying this a few years ago when we were pulling out of the country. In fact, a lot of Dems were. That’s why we questioned going into Iraq because we hadn’t a) nabbed Osama or b) fully secured the Afghanistan. But, you know, we were unpatriotic and didn’t support the troops…

And let me also say that this administration has a very backwards view of what “securing a country” means. I think they were truly so naive to think that if you can get people to the ballot boxes, if you can get women to vote in an Islamic society, you’ve won. Well, that’s obviously not the case, and no amount of purple fingers can change the fact that we took our eye off the ball and we are paying the consequences in both credibility and lives.

DP, come on man, would you wake up already? Aren’t you getting tired of defending these guys? Listen, if they were busting their asses and coming up with new ideas to fix their broken policies, I could understand why you’d be defending them. But they aren’t. Also, aren’t you a libertarian? Don’t these guys go against pretty much everything you believe in?

If things are in such peril and we are so close to losing the heart and minds of average Afgan, I guess it is a good thing we didn’t drop a bomb on their funeral. Such cultural courtesies tend to go a aways when your winning hearts and minds.