[kingu]

Go from unit to unit, deployed or back from deployment, and ask them if they are ready and willing to take Iran from the Mullahs, break the back of terrorism in Syria, or shoot the midget in North Korea from a cannon, and I guarantee that every unit will reply in the affirmative. Ask every unit if they're ready to play police nanny for one more failed nation-state, and they'll say no.

But ask every unit if being in Iraq right now, under the present circumstances is right and important, and they'll agree with one note: Iraq is getting better at providing for their own defense, and the end of major deployment there is on the horizon.

But if Chavez or any other dictator/communist/terrorist thinks that they can operate with impunity and not face the military might of our nation, they are drastically wrong. You put a war, or even two wars before our troops, they will move forward and crush absolutely any and all opposition on the field of battle.

But do not expect one servicemember to relish the concept of doing yet another 'peace-keeping' activity like the aftermath of Iraq again.

[Rummenigge]

If you don't have a plan to exit don't enter. Thought that's a scheme every soldier knows. I knew a Rottweiler once...

[backtothestreets]

But if Chavez or any other dictator/communist/terrorist thinks that they can operate with impunity and not face the military might of our nation, they are drastically wrong.

Fives years since the 9-11 attacks present a different picture. You mentioned North Korea and Iran, but not the nation of the "hero" that advanced both their missile and nuclear technology, Pakistan. General Musharraf pardoned the Pakistani that did this and declared him a hero. In a complete contradiction to the expressed policy of establishing a democracy in the region, General Mausharraf came to power by overthrowing the decractraticlly elected government of Pakistan.

General Mausharraf was a strong supporter of the Taliban in Afghanistan, and Pakistan has been their place of refuge since being driven from Afghanistan. Before and since 9-11 Pakistan has been host to the most Al Qaeda schools and training camps. Up to 60,000 have been trained since 9-11. Many have been deployed to Iraq to attack and kill members of our military. In the same period of time the government of Pakistan has arrested about 450 suspected terrorists, which is less than 1% of the number Pakistan has produced.

In the week and a half since the Pakistani government signed a peace accord with the tribal Pakistani regions protecting Osama bin Laden and his murderous organization, the number of Al Qaeda fighters entering Afghanistan from Pakistan to fight our troops has increased ten fold. They are joined there by Al Qaeda terrorists that visited Iraq to learn the latest bomb making techniques and are now teaching others how to kill our military members and Afghanistan's civilians.

Our military is powerless to respond because Pakistan is declared an ally in the war. Pakistan refuses to allow our military on their soil to seek out and destroy our enemy. The real question is, who is Pakistan really allied with, and who is at the hub of the axis of evil? For now one dictator of a nation has impunity from our military because our politicians have granted that impunity. It's an impunity that is killing our own troops!