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1 posted on 09/18/2006 5:07:28 AM PDT by Tolik
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    Victor Davis Hanson Ping ! 

       Let me know if you want in or out.

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2 posted on 09/18/2006 5:08:00 AM PDT by Tolik
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" after a month in Lebanon, the Israeli Defense Forces are no closer to destroying Hezbollah's Katyusha missiles than they were to eliminating the even more primitive Kassem rockets Hamas launched from Gaza "

Wars are not won by destroying weapons -- wars are won by destroying the enemy's will to fight.

In that context, the Islamofascists are winning -- and will continue to win, until we force ourselves to look at this hard truth:

Victory over Islamofascism will only come when civilian populations are convinced that the consequenses of aiding/supporting/encouraging the terrorists is too horrible to contemplate.


3 posted on 09/18/2006 5:17:15 AM PDT by Uncle Ike (Stop the "tyranny of the 'offended' " -- say what you mean and stand by it!)
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To: Tolik

the reason terrorists are pissed is that we're effective against them.


7 posted on 09/18/2006 6:54:22 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand ("It's only pain, darling.")
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To: Tolik

Victor should run for president in 2008!


8 posted on 09/18/2006 7:34:24 AM PDT by Shery (in APO Land)
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The United States has usually waged war most effectively with Democratic presidents — Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy — who appear as reluctant warriors forced to fight, rather than with supposedly bellicose right-wingers who "enjoy" settling issues by force.

Don't see how Kennedy fits here, and he left out LBJ for good reason. Who among today's Democrats would "reluctantly" go toe-to-toe with Ahmadinejad?

9 posted on 09/18/2006 1:29:18 PM PDT by AZLiberty (Creating the <a href="http://clinton.senate.gov">straddle</a> Google bomb one post at a time.)
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