[Wonder Warthog]

"It's what I call the Wussification of America. It will probably be our undoing sooner or later. I doubt this country has the stomach for fighting a bloody war if such a war becomes necessary. I hope I'm wrong. And I hope we don't have to fight a bloody war."

Every opponent the US has faced yet have believed the above, starting with George III and lately ending with Saddam Hussein. Thus far, they have been uniformly wrong--mistaking a wish to be let alone with with an inability to fight.

See the thread on "The Jacksonian Tradition:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/845102/posts

for the best explanation as to why that I have yet seen.

[squidly]

Every opponent the US has faced yet have believed the above, starting with George III and lately ending with Saddam Hussein.

Remains to be if Saddam is wrong.

[El Gato]

Thus far, they have been uniformly wrong

Well, except for the Vietnamese communists. But then again they had many allies here, paid allies in some cases, fellow travelers and usefull idiots in others, but many in the media. Those "allies" of the perpetrators of reducation camps and the killing fields are still there in the media and most especially in the entertainment industry.