[OneWingedShark]

The answer is obviously “yes,” on the freedom of its own people.

[dfwgator]

"Who's being naive, Kay?"

[Tublecane]

Is water wet?

“How long before the Republic becomes a garrison state?”

Wrong question. Ask rather: how long ago did we become a garrison state? Answer: circa 1941.

[Jean2]

I am surprised that he didn’t blame Israel and jews for once. He usually does.

[GSWarrior]

D’uh

[Road Glide]

“A question raised by Donald Rumsfeld years ago — Are we creating more terrorists than we are killing? — needs re-raising. For if these drone strikes that kill innocent and guilty alike are creating new millions of sympathizers for al-Qaida, and recruiting new thousands of volunteers willing to dedicate their lives to taking revenge against us, we have entered upon a war that may never end.”

The war with islam -is- “endless”, until islam “ends”...

[tet68]

this war will one day bring an end to the freedom for which the Fathers fought.

Too late it already has, because it’s not being
fought as a war.

[lentulusgracchus]

(Art.) Not only in Afghanistan, but Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen and who knows where else. And not just foreigners, but Americans, too.

If Obama executes a drone strike on Sarah Palin, does her life-insurance company get to skate on paying her family by invoking the "war clause"?

[TurboZamboni]

all that matters is what tribe to cheer for:
red tribe or blue tribe.

the tribal leaders will take care of the rest via memos and smoke signals to the tribe.

[dirtboy]

Gee, Pat, you don't suppose the Islamist radicals have anything to do with it?

Nah, that's right. It's all America's Fault. And Israel's as well.

[lentulusgracchus]

[Buchanan] "No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare," wrote the author of our Constitution.

Then we've got a real problem with the Fuzzy-Wuzzies -- the Salafists declared war on us and they think they've got 1.2 billion soldiers at their beck and call.

We've got to find a way to power down their fanaticism, like the British did in the 1890's with the original Fuzzies who killed "Chinese" Gordon at Khartoum.

[ex-snook]

The ‘war on terrorism’ is like the ‘war on drugs’ and the ‘war on poverty’, it is not supposed to end. We have been duped to think ‘war’ as a solution when what is does is to increase what what it was supposed to destroy. Which of the 3 has been reduced because of our ‘war on .....’?

Rumsfeld was right. The ‘war on terrorism’ creates more terrorists. Then again, maybe that is the real reason for the ‘war’ ..... keep it going. FUBAR