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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Bush has said, at every step, the fight will be long and difficult. He never spoke of a TRO win.
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If only this were true.
I think if you were to go back and look, you'd find that your strawman of "do nothing and hope" doesn't actually have a lot of support on the liberal side here. There was huge (board) bipartisan support for Bush going into Afganistan, for example.
But many of who are less predisposed to root for Bush on reflex wonder if he didn't pursue the most expensive (economicly, and worse, in cost of lives) and least likely path toward eliminating terrorism.
200,000 soldiers (not enough). How much money now? $100B? Imagine all that trained on the man who actually has attacked the US.
Do not get us wrong: the Dems, at least on this board, don't think Bush is wrong because he's killing Arabs (although killing anybody - not our favorite thing). He's wrong because he's wasting time and resources not making us any safer, and, indeed, increasing our threat by creating a new training ground for terrorists, complete with huge stocks of live ammo.
This ultimately is what causes so much rage in liberals against conservatives right now. We have a legitimate difference of opinion as to what the best course of action is to decrease the threat of terrorism and protect America. The response is not a discussion, but a shrill cry of treason. It's getting a little old.
