[Coop]

I suppose you in your infinite wisdom have cornered the market on "the big picture"? Come back to me in 10-20 years or more when we're still stuck in that s#ithole, and explain the big picture to me then. Perhaps you should check your emotions at the door! Blackbird.

Cornered? Hardly. But I am able to recognize what this war is about. I'm not sure you can say the same. The SecDef said it best recently - "We can fight the terrorists where they live today, or fight them in America tomorrow."

Big picture.

My emotions had nothing to do with the statement you responded to, Partner. Your response, however...

[section9]

A lot of people, led strangely enough by the anti-Bush Libertarians and the Justin Raimondo crowd, fail to see the point you are making, and do so deliberately.

If we let the terrorists have their way in their own stomping grounds, we will be attacked here at home later on.

It is that simple. It would take someone as cluelessly partisan as Maureen Dowd to miss the point (see Dowd's screed in today's Times).

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[BlackbirdSST]

Here's one about that Big Picture you refer to, or is it?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/971828/posts

Maybe this is another Big Picture, different from the Big Picture you're looking at. As far as the SecDef, I'm not that impressed. They are fool's if they think this will be the end. To somehow equate the presence of some in Iraq with Iraq remaining the battlefield is pure foolishness, the whole time knowing the feds are watching suspected sleepers in 40 different States, and these are just the ones they know about. Do you fall into this camp? Partner. Blackbird.