AMEN!

Nice to read something in the press by an author who does not have their head wedged where the sun does not shine. Most of the whiners expect instant gratification. I wonder what they would have thought of the start of WWII when things looked incredibly bleak?

This is sounder advice than anything the New York Times has managed to put out. Thanks for posting it. A similarly wise editorial appeared in Sunday's Washington Post. When the Times is already publishing shrill cries of defeatism after a mere 21 days of war, it's good to know that New Yorkers have recourse to the steadfast NY Post.

The same critics who are complaining now, will be the first voices heard when there are US casualities. There will be no let up in their griping, regardless of what we do. It's obvious they do not have the best intentions of the US at heart, and will do whatever it takes to instill fear and doubt at every turn.

The microwave generation expects a war to take three weeks.

The microwave generation expects a war to take three weeks.

And they are being encouraged to believe this by those who would consider any means to defeat President Bush and the US, both here and abroad.

Each and every "journalist" who sneers at the slow progress in the war act as though they lost a brother or sister on 9/11.

That is why they want immediate results ......

They can kiss my Royal Irish Ass.

This is likely the best piece I have seen written yet to remind us EXACTLY what Bush said.

I sure as hell hope Ari is reading this and each time he is faced with a question from idiot-reporters he responds with the EXACT QUOTES Bush stated about the length of the war, the type of war, etc.

For PR purposes that does two things: 1). It re-establishes the President's honesty and understanding of the situation that more than a month ago he knew this was going to be tough and stated so, and 2). It begins to help Americans settle in to the reality that this ISN'T going to be a microwave minute war.

I cannot stress enough, the need for the President's PR people to go over and over again the same statements the President said in his speech to Congress.

It deflects the bull from the left and the press, and as Karen Hughes is so fond of doing- "stay on message", etc. and Bush does all the time- repreating over and over again the POINT of his message, they should be doing this ad nauseum right now.

By the way, anyone with a friend in the WH, let them know that the "evil dooer" talk is getting old- cool it with that for a bit or find another way to communicate that.

In other words- sell the same product under another name for awhile- give the "evil dooers" a rest here. It's beginning not to ring meaningful with people.

You don't want a President's message to be ignored, and it will be if "evil dooers" becomes no different in a sentence than the word "and".

Just my opine, but I'm right...

Another common sense breath of fresh air editorial from the NY Post.

They put the nattering neybobs at the New York Times to shame.

Wasn't anyone paying attention when President Bush said last month that this would be a "long struggle" and asked the nation to summon its collective resolve?

That's it exactly, they were not paying attention

That's it exactly, they were not paying attention

And rather than explaining this to them, "our" media would rather whine because the war isn't over yet.

THANKS KAT FOR POSTING THIS.
I was feeling a bit on the glum side about the war thing.
WE ALL need this type of rememberance of what the PRESIDENT said.

You are right. We rushed into a few situations at the beginning of WW II, and we had a lot of people killed as a result. We lost thousands of troops in the Philippines because they couldn’t get adequate supplies. This resulted in the Bataan death march. We sent Doolittle’s Raiders to bomb Tokyo, and as a result 250,000 harmless Chinese peasants were massacred for helping our pilots.

Now, we’ve got to avoid a situation like what happened to our troops in Somalia, we’ve got to try to dodge Red Cross warehouses (a problem we didn’t have during WW II because the Red Cross wasn’t feeding the enemy), and we’re trying to win a war with smart-bombs so we can avoid loosing any US troops.

Some people were impatient a few weeks ago because the bombing in Afghanistan hadn’t started yet, and now some are impatient because the war isn’t over yet. I think we should be a little more patient. Try to look at it this way..... suppose Al Gore were President now.

I was feeling a bit on the glum side about the war thing.

Who can blame you. We're being fed enemy propaganda, not only by the likes of Reuters, but by "our own" media, for their own purposes.

It is getting old having the news readers continue to hype the plight of the poor Afgan "victims." of U.S. bombs.

Excuse me but I have one word for those poor Afgan civilians: MOVE!

They live in nothing more than MUD HOUSES, but yet the news readers act as though we were bombing the mansions of the average news reader or hollywierdos.

Actually I think that we could save on the cost of munitons by utilizing firefighting air tankers loaded with water and chemicals to dissolve mud. A few passes over the towns and, poof, no more houses!

"Excuse me but I have one word for those poor Afgan civilians: MOVE!"

As I see it, they had almost a month's more warning then the people in the WTC got.

A Thanks For Posting This Bump.

Among other things, the Gulf War spoiled us, and that was before the competing cable news networks spewed forth 24 hours a day worth of hysteria and repetition.

And sometimes I get impatient too. I hereby call any past or future posts in which I say "ok, this has gone on long enough, time to break out the nukes" shortsighted and ignorant.

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