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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (180379)	9/13/2001 11:37:07 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769670

We shall just have to see what is going to happen......

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (180379)	9/13/2001 12:40:57 PM
From: George Coyne	Respond to of 769670

I understand your thesis. I simply hope it is not yet true.

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (180379)	9/13/2001 12:48:31 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

I just figured out how to explain to you our current situation, as a comparison with the World Wars and other conflicts. It is as if we had intervened in 1914, before the trench lines stabilized, and managed to tip the scale in favor of the Allies and a swift resolution, or as if we were right there in an integrated military command with the British and French, right after Poland, and able to counter the Nazis as they passed through Belgium. It is as if MacArthur had had a free hand in Korea, and had been able to pursue and destroy bases on the other side of the Yalu. It is as if we had destroyed the Ho Chih Minh Trail in 1965, and invaded North Vietnam shortly thereafter, rather than waging a war of attrition. We are going to them, and we are doing so while they are still fairly weak......