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2006-09-13 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-09-13 10:53|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Amen, NS. Good article and good comments. I know the motives behind the present course, but history would predict failure. I guess we can always say we tried. The only thing that this cult understands is brutal force. We need to apply that now. They certainly intend to if/when they become capable.

Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-09-13 12:25|| 2006-09-13 12:25|| Front Page Top

#2 It's like listening to my uncle in 1967. I thought he fell from a cherry tree and that influenced his faculties. I was a kid, it was a brave new world albeit jetsons paradigm did not materialize at the time and probably won't for some time.

I laughed, thinking how in this modern world people (certain kind) can indulge in such a lunacy. I still thought he was not correct in 1990.

How things change...

Posted by twobyfour 2006-09-13 23:08|| 2006-09-13 23:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Our real mistake is not making it clear enough that we will indeed implement that alternative if pushed far enough.

This is Bush's one great failing. The nuclear option is the fulcrum of all other levers we apply in the Middle East. Not making this plain only emboldens our enemies and needlessly complicates our efforts. Were the situation reversed, atomic weapons would have already been used against us. That we so cautiously refrain from any allusion to them is a disservice to our soldiers and the security of our nation.

Posted by Zenster 2006-09-13 23:38|| 2006-09-13 23:38|| Front Page Top

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