[johniegrad]

Does "winning the hearts and minds" really work? Honest question.

[SandRat]

and the armchair boys say we aren't adapting tactics....sheesh! What a bunch of noids -nyuck-nyuck-nyuck to the armchair boys complaining.

[nightdriver]

"We're fighting a war down there and haven't fired a shot," Brownhill said. "We're taking on al Qaeda and associated movements there, and it's the civil affairs piece that's winning it."

But, but, I thought that Bin Laden and his al-queda boys built schools, roads, and infrastructure. Our own esteemed mom-in-tennis-shoes senator, Patty Murray said so.

She surely knows what she's talking about, doesn't she?

(/sickening naivite)