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There Is No Substitute for Victory (War is Hell, Let's Get On With It)
Interactive Wall Street Journal (subscription) ^ | 10-26-01 | Senator John McCain

Posted on 10/26/2001 7:40:01 AM PDT by Petronski

Edited on 04/22/2004 11:45:38 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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61 posted on 10/26/2001 2:26:08 PM PDT by carpio
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Thanks for the ping, carpio.

Welcome aboard, fatrat.

62 posted on 10/26/2001 2:26:14 PM PDT by jo6pac
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63 posted on 10/26/2001 2:28:33 PM PDT by carpio
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64 posted on 10/26/2001 2:35:11 PM PDT by carpio
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65 posted on 10/26/2001 2:37:53 PM PDT by carpio
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66 posted on 10/26/2001 2:40:46 PM PDT by carpio
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67 posted on 10/26/2001 2:45:19 PM PDT by carpio
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To: Petronski
McManiac's statement is good and correct as far as it goes. Unfortunately, he left out the "domestic" side of it, which has the potential to be the most daunting and dangerous part.

I don't see any good ideas on how we are to expeditiously handle the enemy within our boundaries or how to do it without destroying ourselves or our Constitutional freedoms while we're at it. Everything he references is "over there".

It's easy to call for the elimination of foreigners in a foreign land among a foreign population. It's when these same fanatical and hidden enemies are mixed in our own population that the rubber meets the road.

68 posted on 10/26/2001 2:48:45 PM PDT by Gritty
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69 posted on 10/26/2001 2:51:36 PM PDT by carpio
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To: Petronski
McCain is a certifiable nutcase. I would not vote for him if he won the Republican nomination; which has no chance.
70 posted on 10/26/2001 2:52:19 PM PDT by Pete53
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71 posted on 10/26/2001 2:54:46 PM PDT by carpio
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72 posted on 10/26/2001 3:01:51 PM PDT by carpio
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We must change permanently the mindset of terrorists and those parts of Islamic populations who believe the terrorist conceit that they will prevail because America has not the stomach to wage a relentless, long-term, and, at times, ruthless war to destroy them.

Precisely.  Nail 'em right in the
cerebral cortex.  Ruthless,
relentless, horrific.

73 posted on 10/26/2001 3:21:29 PM PDT by gcruse
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To: carpio
Thanks carpio! BTT
74 posted on 10/26/2001 3:48:38 PM PDT by KLT
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To: Petronski
McPain is right on this .
It's time Powell to shut up and let the real War begin.
It's time for Heavy carpet bombings by B52s and B2s
75 posted on 10/26/2001 3:51:11 PM PDT by KQQL
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To: norton
I still wonder who wrote it for Senator Mc Clean, does not sound like anything I've heard from him .... ever.

The entire time I read it I couldn't help but think he found something his father had written long ago in a stack of dusty papers, shook it out, changed a few words and sent it in to the WSJ.

I am ashamed of myself.

76 posted on 10/26/2001 4:17:17 PM PDT by WillaJohns
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To: Petronski; Sidebar Moderator; Admin Moderator
Please don't post subscription-only material.

Moderators, could you pull this thread, or delete the majority of McCain's article? If you left a paragraph or two, WSJI probably wouldn't mind. WSJI went out of their way to make this subscription only, it should not be posted here for anyone to read for free.

77 posted on 10/26/2001 4:36:07 PM PDT by xm177e2
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To: Petronski
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78 posted on 10/26/2001 4:45:23 PM PDT by Fiddlstix
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To: carpio
Thanks for the flag, carpio. It's a good, solid patriotic piece and it received a lot of air time.

Sen. McCain is wrong about the Northern Alliance, though. If they take Kabul before any accord is made with the majority tribes in the South there will be more serious civil wars ahead. The Northern Alliance front lines are angry, understandably, and have refused to join an alliance with the south, or even the moderate former King. We are helping them by keeping the Taliban troops under control in the north (wiping out a good number and sending the rest into the mountains), but I don't think we're too anxious to help the Northern Alliance claim a sole leadership role in Afghanistan. They made a mess of that once before.

79 posted on 10/26/2001 5:01:38 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl
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To: Petronski
McCains right, kill them all and do it now while we have the backing of most of the left.
80 posted on 10/26/2001 5:20:44 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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