[WilliamofCarmichael]

President Bush reminded Americans in his sobering television address that we do have enemies. They are aggressive, committed people who hate the United States and are deadly in the pursuit of that hatred.

Then the President turned to the threat from other countries. . .

we will not win this war on the battlefield . . . .

See the post-war writings of the North Vietnamese Communists thanking the "anti-war" movement and praising the American media as their "most valuable guerrilla." Win all the battles, lose the war.

But the lens through which many in the Muslim world see us shows them war, destruction -- and, inexcusably, sometimes rape and murder -- at our hands.

See the "we created a monster, all U.S. military are war criminals" Senate foreign relations subcommittee testimony by John Kerry (1972) representing the view through the Communists' lens.

U.S. troops win all the battles -- U.S. enemies within surrender the war. Go figure.

I have. All 200-year-old republics are entitled to at least one patriot-dictator. I've been looking since at least 1972.

[Der_Hirnfänger]

So glad I stopped subscribing to the whOregonian.