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I think Bush has not been agressive enough, the problem is he cannot win with people like yourself. If he is not agressive nad prepaired he gets blamed for dropping the ball. Yet when he acts decisively with military action, the liberals cry we are hurting our standing in the world, blah blah blah.
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For hitting Afghanistan, I give Bush an "A". (Yeah, you heard me!)
For hitting Iraq ... I applaud it ... but mostly in theory. For the lame reason given to go in, an "F". For not planting WMDs (let's be real, goverments have done far worse), an "F". For still being there, an "F-".
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We should be putting much more pressure - indirect and direct on Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.
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Mike, Iran has American and (some) international armies on both sides of it now. Iran is contained. Syria has us on one side of it now, but too much travel room for terrorists, ditto the Saudis who like to play clean on the outside, while funding terrorists under the table when they think no one is looking.
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Your Americanism is as blind as any other religion.
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Joe it appears anti-Americanism is your religion.
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is operating from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Indonesia, and a host of other places - not Iran, Syria and Saudia Arabia.
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PD, for reasons menitioned already above I mostly disagree with the first part of your comment there. However most of your points on the latter part I am in somewhat agreement with.
We already have a presence in the Afghani and Paki regions, thankfully, dipolomatically and militarily to some degree. Indonesia is the big wingnut that has the potential to fly off into a South Pacific-wde "'nother 'Nam" and we should tread lightly there.
We need better intelligence (no jokes please, seriously) and better diplomacy and better secretive strike teams and yes (a liberal thought!) a much better understanding of how we are viewed negatively, and what we can do to fix that and to understand others. So yes, a combination of diplomacy, communications, understanding and strike forces, not large military strikes, are the answer IMHO.
Last edited by Dravyk at Apr 2 2004, 08:55 PM