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2006-08-20 Home Front: WoT

Looking for the Will Beyond the Battlefield

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Posted by Steve White 2006-08-20 12:19|| || Front Page|| [11137 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "The fish rots from the head."
Old Irish proverb.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-08-20 12:27|| 2006-08-20 12:27|| Front Page Top

#2 What a heap of shite. This bloke is obviously not with the programme. This is a Long War Mr Stein. There are going to be setbacks, there are going to be more attacks, and yes some of them are going to be 'mega-attacks'. A lot of innocent people are going to die.

But let's look at the other side of the coin, just today we hear of a group of people who leave a plane because they don't like their fellow passengers - a crack in the edifice of PC? I hope so. We also hear from lotp that applicants to West Point are starting to come from more 'elite' backgrounds and have a low attrition rate - these people know what War we're in. The poison dwarf Ahmadinejahd is about to get the mother of all smack-downs, the Soddys are bricking it, the pencil-neck geek Assad is in total denial and the Israelis are very likely to bring in a hard-line government (they're not going to take it any more Mr Stein) which will annihilate Hezbollah when they step out of turn.

Sheesh! - do some bloody research man! Read some blogs and stop going to those no-nothing echo-chamber NYT cocktail parties!

Twit.

Posted by Tony (UK) 2006-08-20 13:13|| 2006-08-20 13:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Whahahaha Tony, don't sugar coat the scones mate.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-08-20 16:28|| 2006-08-20 16:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Mighty Israel ... has been fought to a standstill by Hezbollah.

No Ben. Actually Israel was stopped --- a week from total victory --- by its ~~patron~~ ally USA.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-08-20 19:18|| 2006-08-20 19:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe Alexander Solzhenitsyn put his finger on the problem back in 1978?
A snippet:
When a government starts an earnest fight against terrorism, public opinion immediately accuses it of violating the terrorists' civil rights. There are many such cases.

Posted by tipper 2006-08-20 20:04|| 2006-08-20 20:04|| Front Page Top

#6 terrorists' civil rights

File that precious oxymoron along side "Arab Unity", "Islamic Concensus" and "Moderate Muslim".

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-20 21:59|| 2006-08-20 21:59|| Front Page Top

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