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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: aladin who wrote (7465)	10/16/2001 1:35:53 PM
From: Frederick Langford	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

Would you have 'negotiated' with Hitler? Plenty of chickens and doves tried. Does the name Neville remind you of anyone? Fred

To: aladin who wrote (7465)	10/16/2001 3:09:15 PM
From: Captain Jack	Respond to of 27666

J C-- we allowed Hitler to run much longer than needed and the same with Benny. All due to the weak stomachs of US citizens. After what happened on 9/11 we still had to go and deal for support? We should have TOLD everyone what was going to happen and told them what their role was. Any faultering would be delt with later financially or?? Saddam-- if Schwartzkoff had been permitted to finish the job he was given there may be no Anthrax panic in the US now. As to Nam-- the politicians, specifically Johnson, wanted to micromanage the war from DC and did not permit the military to do what was required-- the military had special rules then as now-- one reason Omar still draws breath.. The US military is strong, well trained and equiped. The US population is very bad at taking casualties and nearly as bad at inflicting them. One salvation is if the media really is kept away as during the Granada operation. At this point CNN has not enough to keep going for 24 hrs a day so the rehasing causes more panic than it does good. Indiate concern-- but not with the relish and theatrics..

To: aladin who wrote (7465)	10/16/2001 3:31:12 PM
From: Rollcast...	Respond to of 27666

Well said. Here is an exerpt from a recent George Will column... "George Orwell said that "England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality." What is remarkable is not that a slice of the American intelligentsia is like that, but how little that slice matters. Americans are too absorbed in their collective drama of vulnerability and retaliation even to bother despising their despisers on campuses and on the wilder shores of left-wing journalism. Montaigne said that people take seriously what they hate. How galling it must be for the far left to be incapable even of eliciting hatred."