[SoCalPol]

WWII had an enemy army in uniform.
Front lines and the rear.

This war has the enemy in regular clothes in the
Middle East, Europe, South East Asia, Russia, Africa, etc

This is a circular war. No front line, no rear.

We have to win the general population.

WE can make a parking lot out of a country only the enemy
will send missiles from another country and hit America.

Or, just like in Russia, two muslim women suicide bombers
hit the subway system in Moscow killing people yesterday.

The enemy is in the U.S. They can take out shopping centers, stadiums with 80,000 people.

[molybdenum]

After Sept 11, no immigrations from the ME should have been allowed, and CAIR kicked out of the country. No new mosque construction. GWB produced the Patriot Act which could have included the surveillance of existing mosques, no backing down, ferreting out the hate groups in major city ghettos, and destroying islamic compounds/training camps(!) such as Islamaberg NY and the infestation near Houston. Mesta Machine has a map on her thread "Threat Matrix".

A situation like today never existed or would have been allowed to exist during any previous wars. (except for the Vietnam war when the commie provacateurs provoked the college brats to dissension and violence; not quite the same thing)