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2006-12-01 Afghanistan

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Posted by .com 2006-12-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 We should start up a pool. I'm betting NATO ends up putting 200 additional pairs of boots on the ground total.

Posted by gorb 2006-12-01 00:53|| 2006-12-01 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 How unlike France and Spain ...

*rimshot*

Posted by MacNails 2006-12-01 04:57|| 2006-12-01 04:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Typical French-Quickly Forget what US/UK done to liberate their country in WW11-Arab loving cowards!!!!

Posted by Ebbolump Glomotle9608 2006-12-01 05:19|| 2006-12-01 05:19|| Front Page Top

#4 OK, gorb. I'll go zero.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2006-12-01 07:44|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2006-12-01 07:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Go to Omaha Beach and you will find a monument paid by French citizens on their own pockets honoring those who fell during D-Day. And learn about how they fought the government who wanted to dismantle it. Go to the American miltary cemetary at Coleville and you will find in addition to mere visitors, French people who come to puit flower on the graves. They haven't forgotten but the Commuinists, the Gaullists and teh Europeists have been brainwashing the French into hating everything American (those people in the graves included who died for Coca-Cola and Gillete, atht is more por mless that is what say our history books). All of this while America slept, unaware of how millions were being turned agsint her not only in France but everywhere in world, and not moving a finger on ethe propaganda battlefield.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-12-01 08:17|| 2006-12-01 08:17|| Front Page Top

#6 ... but European countries such as France and Spain retained some of the restrictions that prevent their troops from taking a more active role in the fighting.

It was my impression they preferred the passive role.

Posted by Excalibur 2006-12-01 09:07|| 2006-12-01 09:07|| Front Page Top

#7 JFM, I've found in my travels in Europe that the further you get from a nation's capital, the friendlier they are to Americans. The French in Paris are the worst in Europe. The French in Normandy are the friendliest people I've ever met. It's not necessarily the people that we're having a problem with, but their governments. And yes, we have "lost" most of the propaganda wars. Most Americans just don't think in the terms of propaganda. We also have a large body of people with few brains and big mouths on our political left that think the US is the most dispicable country in the world, and we really haven't challenged them sufficiently. I think, before the Islamofascist war is over, a lot of those people must be discredited or silenced, or the entire world will lose.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-12-01 12:18|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-12-01 12:18|| Front Page Top

#8 So, true, OP. And, I'd add, I believe we're going to have to defeat that evil triumverate (LLL/Donk Politicos/MSM) BEFORE we can win this war on Islamofascism.

When so much of our nation is completely ignorant of what true evil lies overseas (and, in some cases, right here among us), and what grand expansionist plans the jihadis have, it's no wonder we can't put a nail in the coffin of Islamofascism and quick. Personally, I blame the following (in order):

(1) the average American, who doesn't pay attention to anything outside his/her little spehere of influence. Too much worried about either their next cup of Starbucks (the rich libs) or their next welfare/food stamps check (the minorities, led by race hustlers who only care about "da hood").
(2) the MSM, for NOT reporting the "good news" and/or showing more often the real BARBARIANS we face (beheadings, burnings, disembowelments, etc.).
(3) the U.N. When an International group (where 90% of said members are two-bit dictators) holds so much "high esteem" in so many of our politicos minds, and yet is completely inept at solving ANY of the world's problems, and actually aids and abets the baddies, we're fighting an uphill battle.
(4) President Bush. He should use the 'bully pulpit' more. I realize part of this is NOT his fault, but the slant or blackout of the MSM. But, I hearken back to the days of the cowboy (You're either again' us, or you're for us) who called a spade a spade. On this matter specifically, I do agree with .com on the handwringers (who've even shown up here), for President Bush has done a LOT in the WoT. But, his communication of the TRUE threat is what I have a beef with (and I'm one of his biggest fans). Remember, the first rule of war is "Know thy enemy."

Posted by BA 2006-12-01 13:53|| 2006-12-01 13:53|| Front Page Top

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