I told this man that although security has been tightened, I was surprised there hasn’t been a major attack in the United States since September 11.Why?
Because it seems that it would be easy to pull off.
How so?
How hard would it be to plan a coordinated attack on a subway system in New York or Washington?
Why would they want to do that?
Because they can.
How would they benefit from pissing off the American people right now?
They live to piss off the American people. Their mission is to kill us.
Terrorists don’t have the support of the American people in the sense that we generally define support, but the American people are giving them what they want by clamoring for retreat. It’s not in the terrorists interest to hit the United States right now.
Game, set, match. Of course that by that logic, staying on the offense in Iraq (and Afghanistan) would be the best defense for the homeland. Not exactly a bolt-from-the-blue revelation for us military types, but it might be tough medicine to swallow for some.
Reminds me of a recent conversation with an anti-victory friend:
So you support withdrawal?Of course, I was against this little adventure from the git-go.
That’s 2003′s debate buddy, we’re in 07 now. What happens if we leave?
Well…..we let the Iraqis work it out.
Do you even understand what you’re proposing? Iraq will tear itself apart, turn into a terror-friendly vacuum, or..worse..a satellite of Iran, and Al-Qaeda will turn their eyeballs west towards America again. And that’s to say nothing of the thousands of Iraqis that we can except to die in the turmoil. Do you accept responsibility for what happens when we leave?
No of course not. This was Bush’s war, not mine.
President Bush is not advocating for premature retreat, you are.
……Yeah, but it’s Bush’s —
Right. Oil, Halliburton, profit…fill in your theory. Let’s go get some beers, and let’s try not to mix them with politics alright?
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And such was the conversation. We’ve got a dangerous crossing of brain patterns in the craniums of our domestic anti-warriors. No concept of strategic consquences coupled with a complete unwillingness to accept responsibility for their political positions. Not the type of pundits that we should be listening to, particularly when we’re talking about something as important as our defense.
It’s similar to this…
Lefty the clowns cruise ship has run aground on a island inhabited with cannibals. To which he exclaims, “That’s not my problem, I bought a ticket to go to France!”.
His first mistake is “Bush’s war”. It’s not Bush’s war, it’s America’s war, whether he was for it initially or not. Just like Kosovo was America’s war even though some of us didn’t agree with that little adventure either.
That said, any exit as proposed by mostly Dems in Congress will be a Democratic Party retreat. They have lost elections due to being perceived as “soft on defense” and because people “didn’t trust them with national security.”
The past three days’ debate cements these two suspicions in stone. It has given us endless video of anti-warrior Congressmen making galling pro-defeat pronouncements that will fill the airwaves in 2008, and lead to an influx of angry vets into the halls of power.
This sounds like a guy I know who was in the Active and then Air Force Reserves and retired out as a Lt. Colonel. He calls this Bush’s War, and can’t find anything positive to say about it. His logic is about as convoluted as your drinking buddy’s is.
It’s all about Halliburton, the obscene profits being made by contractors who are ripping off the government, and oh by the way, where are the WMD? Huh? Show me.
I have no idea how he achieved his rank, or how he stayed in the military as long as he did. He makes absolutely no sense, and is incapable of seeing the big picture.
I avoid him and others like him like the plague. Their hatred for Bush/Cheney borders on rabid.
Living in Broward County, Fl (aka Democrat Hell) I have this conversation just about everyday with someone new.. part of me doesn’t mind it as I try to look at it as an opportunity to enlighten some reality challenged souls on how things actually are in the real world.. The OTHER part of me wants to choke each and every one of them..
I suspect it’s always been this way, maybe not as bad as it is now.. and I guess it always will be. I just thank the powers that be for the men and woman doing their jobs in a foreign land everyday.. and thank God that I’m not among the reality challenged.
I am a jew, a pro israel zionist & a democrat (maybe one of the few that actually did and does support President Bush on Iraq.)
When I talk to people that are from both the gop and the democratic parties that say “get out now” it was all a mistake I look at them and say..
Wow, you really do hate arabs light years more than me!
After all you must have been happy with Saddam, the single largest mass murderer of moslems in the history of the world?
And if we “leave” this will also cause a large tidal wave of mass murder second to none! You also infer that arabs lack the ability (genetics) to become peaceful…
now YOU are a bigot..
It’s frustrating that so many people refuse to see the forest for the trees. The consequences of withdrawal are too frightening to even ponder, especially for the military community.
I admire you for being able to remain calm, civil and actually interested in drinking with such a cretin.
It is appalling to me to see so many clueless Americans in positions of power these days. It is obvious that a majority of our populace is completely unaware of the fight we are in–like it or not.
Iran–which lefties assume Bush is eager to attack just because he’s a war-monger–has been in an undeclared war against this country since Carter’s ineptitude enabled the creation of the Islamic Republic in the late seventies. We are just now rising to the bait.
I guess it is going to take another major blow against innocent Americans to wake these zombies from their slumber. However, my bet is they would blame Bush and the “neocons” moreso than the real enemy in that scenario.
Later in her article she mentioned the key point:
It’s more likely that the American people simply don’t recognize that their quest for withdrawal is actually playing into the hands of terrorists, which speaks to the importance of the information war and the disturbing fact that the mainstream media continue to be very influential with respect to molding public opinion.
What this says again and again to me is that we simply will not learn that we fight small wars to avoid big wars.