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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I view Bush's efforts in Afghanistan as half-assed. He should have demanded that the Pakistanis let us use the provinces as a testing ground for new weapons. We should have just bombed it until it glowed a funny color, then bombed it some more. Make sure that whatever lives in it can't eat anything grown in its soil. Hell, we could have done that by giving Musharraf a few billion. He'd take it.
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Sure, that would have been consistent with American values. Well, the Republican Party's, anyway.
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Iraq is a good idea gone totally wrong. Bush needed to integrate the Baathists, not take them out. They're cruels bastards, but they're secularists. If he kept their party apparatus together, he'd have a strong party to hand power to. Instead, he has a cobbled together affiliation of disparate tribes. It'll never last, but it has done one great thing - it exported the terror war to Iraq. Its much better to have Zarqawi targeting Iraq than NYC.
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I agree with you, except replace "good" with "bad" and so on. You'd be right about the terror war if it was a zero-sum game. We'll be paying for this one for years.
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They don't respect anything, but horrifying force is demoralizing.
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Except when it isn't. Hitler thought the British would cave after Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain, but he was wrong.
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You don't see Islamists in Syria anymore, do you? No, because they rose up once and Assad retaliated by leveling an entire neighborhood where they were concentrated. The Islamists still write about it as a horror of proportions they've never seen. No one got out. Lamentable? Sure, but you haven't seen any islamists demanding overthrow of the Syrian monarchy, have you? That butchering scared them silent. That, and Hussein's brutal persecution of Islamists in Iraq, were the only two times radical Islam has been effectively stopped dead.
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And this explains why radical Islam has conquered the entire world, except for Syria and Iraq.
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You can't handle animals with a velvet glove.
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I would get all PC on your ass here, but what's the point? They're just animals, so bomb 'em 'til they glow. And God bless America.
