[Vision2020] Tet Offensive

[Paul Rumelhart]

>Your observation about the coverage of the mosque in Fallujah where Al-Zar 
>punk-boy was hiding was also correct.  We should have ignored the 
>collaborating subversives in our media and allowed the generals to blast the 
>bastard, mosque and all, right into Allah's lap.  This only sounds bad to 
>those who haven't the stomach for what is unavoidable to achieve victory or 
>the sense to defer to those who do.
>  
>
I'm tired of these two basic assertions that I keep seeing.  One is that 
the "liberals" are somehow unloyal and unamerican, as you seem to be 
implying here by calling them "collaborating subversives in our media".  
The other is that a lack of total willingness to kill anyone and 
everyone is some form of weakness, as you seem to imply when you say 
that liberals "haven't the stomach for what is unavoidable to achieve 
victory or the sense to defer to those who do".

We will never have a reasonable debate here if these issues are not 
addressed, in my opinion. 

To start with, I will claim that many of the "liberals" care as deeply 
about their country as you do.  I will also claim that the ability to 
show mercy or to abstain from killing from a position of strength is a 
sign of power, not weakness.

Paul