Iraq is nearly over. BTW we won.

Urbane Guerrilla · 07-25-2008, 02:01 AM

In other news -- from a blog, featuring sundry links to here and there.

Plenty of incidental blasting of the Left as unprincipled idiots, with no one left to be useful to.

Well, Undertoad, the Democratic Party footdragging on the WoT has been a national disgrace from its first moment, and their want of a strategic vision exceeds myopia and goes all the way to astigmatism. You can't win a war -- one started by rude foreigners, I never tire of pointing out to the thickheads who don't want the fascists disturbed -- by searching for substitutes for victory. That's the same non-achievement they've been at since 1954 -- and is not that a little too long? No wonder I have no faith in the Democratic Party.

Republicans made the effort to sink international Communism, and they succeeded. Democrats, not so much. We'd like to think Kennedy might've, but we'll never know. Johnson, as John Keegan writes in Americans At War, essentially fought Vietnam as a strategic retreat -- not the best way to get a success from the American military. Or, I suppose, any military. Design a war for failure, and that's what you're likely to get. Rambo put it rather well, didn't he, with his wistful "Do we get to win, this time?" The Republicans say yes, the Democrats... don't.

In the meantime, we have Barack Obama setting forth a military strategy outline in a recent speech that looks exactly like -- well, the very strategy the Administration and the Republicans would carry out. I'm pleased that the Dems are finally getting an inkling of how America might succeed, but there remain limitations to my optimism here.

Sundae · 07-25-2008, 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Republicans made the effort to sink international Communism, and they succeeded. Democrats, not so much. We'd like to think Kennedy might've, but we'll never know.

Goodness. And I bet Eastern Europeans never even bothered to thank them. The selfish gets.

I assume they're working on sinking it in China now? Ooh, fingers crossed Obama doesn't get in then, China might stay Communist otherwise.

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Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	In other news -- from a blog, featuring sundry links to here and there. Plenty of incidental blasting of the Left as unprincipled idiots, with no one left to be useful to. Well, Undertoad, the Democratic Party footdragging on the WoT has been a national disgrace from its first moment, and their want of a strategic vision exceeds myopia and goes all the way to astigmatism. You can't win a war -- one started by rude foreigners, I never tire of pointing out to the thickheads who don't want the fascists disturbed -- by searching for substitutes for victory. That's the same non-achievement they've been at since 1954 -- and is not that a little too long? No wonder I have no faith in the Democratic Party. Republicans made the effort to sink international Communism, and they succeeded. Democrats, not so much. We'd like to think Kennedy might've, but we'll never know. Johnson, as John Keegan writes in Americans At War, essentially fought Vietnam as a strategic retreat -- not the best way to get a success from the American military. Or, I suppose, any military. Design a war for failure, and that's what you're likely to get. Rambo put it rather well, didn't he, with his wistful "Do we get to win, this time?" The Republicans say yes, the Democrats... don't. In the meantime, we have Barack Obama setting forth a military strategy outline in a recent speech that looks exactly like -- well, the very strategy the Administration and the Republicans would carry out. I'm pleased that the Dems are finally getting an inkling of how America might succeed, but there remain limitations to my optimism here. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course. Last edited by Urbane Guerrilla; 07-25-2008 at 02:30 AM.

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