How we could lose

[Aknauta]

Jewish World Review Jan. 13, 2003 / 10 Shevat, 5763
Michael Ledeen


How we could lose

http://www.NewsAndOpinion.c om | September 11th wasn't terrible enough for most Western leaders to recognize the gravity of the threat and the urgency of victory.

The two leaders who were catalyzed by the terror attack (President Bush and British Prime Minister Blair) have been boxed in by a combination of so-called friends and allies and by their own advisers who counsel excessive prudence. This antiwar coalition prevented the rapid and decisive action Mr. Bush seemed instinctively inclined to unleash.


First, the uniformed military insisted we were not "ready" to take on Iraq until we had totally replenished our supplies and massed a quarter of a million fighters for the Battle of Baghdad, even though there is abundant information suggesting that the Iraqi people are counting the minutes until we give them the chance of liberation from Saddam's terrible dictatorship, and will do much of the job themselves.

Then came the sly Abdullah plan, a scheme put forward by the Saudis to deflect our attention from the real terror masters, and focus it instead on the "Palestinian question," even though - or more likely because - that problem cannot be solved until the terror masters have been defeated.
That's the sort of thing that happens to countries who don't take war with the seriousness it deserves (http://jewishworldreview.co m/michael/ledeen.html)

[Charie]

This is a disturbing article. I DO believe that Geo. Bush has his goal in sight and will keep to it, even though obstacles have been thrown in his way and he has to go around or leap over them.

I am also disturbed by the anti-war people who seem so blind. Is it because they aren't being taught history in the public schools? (come to think of it, I do believe they're trying to teach that it was our fault that we were attacked by Japan in 1941) That old saw is true: Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/noway.gif

[Aknauta]

True Charie.
The people standing on the street corners are part of a wide-spread and well coordinated campaign by the marxists in our Universities. The professors are organizing some of the emotionally immature in our Universities who have been suborned in service to the revolution.

A niece of mine suffered the same fate. After being a star student in a high school in the south, she was recruited by liberal teachers to go to Wellesly where she met her first communist professors. From here she transferred to Evergreen State College in Washington. Here she got a connection to the Communist Party USA. *She moved to Chicago as a party member to do work for them in the slums. After having been mugged countless times by reality she finally fled the party and has been wandering the country for years without direction. Another student who had great potential but was subverted for party work by the communist recruiters in our High Schools and Universities. As a result her life has been wrecked.

[AngelsRWorldChamps]

I remeber this one teacher back in Undergrad who tried to make be join the party I took two of his classes,took the second because he frist was an easy A a 5 page paper for an A. The second class the following semester he was never there another five page paper and another A. I was smart enougt to resist his BS but he got some and some and to them thats all that matters

[Charie]

AK, you *and your niece have my sympathy.
I was rather liberal as a young person but communism never entered into it. *My grandfather was a narc for the FBI back in the 30s, my uncle was a state trooper and a cousin worked for the FBI for years. *There is no leftwing blood that flows in my veins *http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif .

Remember the flap about the Pearl Harbor display that was set up in the Smithsonian for the 50th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor? *It led one to believe that somehow we invited that invasion and that the Japanese were a gentle, peace-loving people. *Thank God that a lot of our veterans are still alive. *A lot of them rose up and put the lie to that. *That's all it took was a graphic look at the Bataan Death March. *In our local newspapers, it seemed as though that's all I heard at the time was how terrible we Americans had treated the Japanese. *That was enough to make me *http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/banghead.gif.

Anyhow, you may have guessed that I have since reformed from my wandering left ways. *http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rofl.gif

P.S. *Mark, of course you'd resist, you're a GOP and have brains. *http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/yelclap.gif

[Bob2351]

Sadly, I believe that the only way that our resolve will be shored up is by another devastating attack. It does not seem that we are taking this war seriously anymore.

[pRIMrose]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"> Is it because they aren't being taught history in the public schools? (come to think of it, I do believe they're trying to teach that it was our fault that we were attacked by Japan in 1941)[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>

Absolutely! All they are taught now is &quot;Hitler made the trains run on time.&quot; http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif

It's a travesty that so much of our history has been revised or obliterated in our &quot;so called&quot; schools of higher learning. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tqrolleyes.gif

I've just ordered a three CD/DVD program on WWII ~ all the way from Hitler to Nagasaki. And everything in between. It should be offered in all of our schools. Then maybe the &quot;hate America first&quot; crowd would see what price has been paid for their right to be stupid. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/teeth2.gif