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[Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>]

RayZentz AT aol.com wrote:

>  In a message dated 10/18/2004 10:47:11 AM Central Standard Time,
>  genegerue AT ruralize.com writes:
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>  ''This is why George W. Bush is so clear-eyed about Al Qaeda and the
>  Islamic fundamentalist enemy. He believes you have to kill them
>  all. They can't be persuaded, that they're extremists, driven by a
>  dark vision. He understands them, because he's just like them. . . .
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>  You know, this comment may be absolutely true. While I don't
>  necessarily believe it is so, assume for a minute that it is. Who
>  better to lead during a time of conflict against such extremists,
>  than another extremist. Four years later, our "extremist" will be
>  gone.
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>  Ray
tvoivozhd---I would not have liked the task of  "persuading" Yamamoto to 
get Japanese troops out of the Pacific Rim countries in WWII---unless 
you define "persuasion" as killing all the bastards. THAT WORKED!!.  I 
despise solutions that by definition cannot work---and the proponents of 
non-workable solutions.

However, this is not a set-piece war.  It is a guerrilla war with 
hundreds of thousands of unprofitable targets.  These targets lie within 
other countries.  If those countries do not regard them as an internal 
threat, they absolutely will not inconvenience them in any way, much 
less attack them---which means NO ONE will attack them where they live, 
organize, plan, train, and move out to attack U.S. citizens and property 
around the world.

We have a tiny number of cooperative countries (and some uncooperative 
ones) who fear their domestic guerrillas, and the incursion of foreign 
guerrillas enough to kill one or both WITHIN THEIR OWN BORDERS---and 
supply intelligence to the U.S. (for their own purposes), so we have the 
occasional opportunity to do the same.  This can hardly be defined as a 
broad, united front against guerrillas.  Being "clear-eyed"  (something 
I seriously doubt in the Bush Administration), necessarily recognizes 
the U.S. cannot attack guerrillas outside our borders.

We have to operate within these limitations.  It is unsatisfactory, but 
is the only option we have..  Non Bastardus Carborundum---try not to let 
the bastards wear us down.

And Ray is right, the most militarily stupid, the most 
environmentally-destructive, the most energy-insane of  Presidents, even 
if re-elected, will depart the politial scene  four years later.