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To: RetiredNow who wrote (300813)	8/20/2006 3:03:27 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1578945

"If you look back at the WWII era, hard ass politics were the only thing that saved the US from becoming a Japanese or German colony." This is just ridiculous historical fearmongering. Neither the Japanese OR the Germans had ANY plans to invade the United States. The "Thousand Year Reich" was to be european. The Japanese sought an empire in the western Pacific.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (300813)	8/20/2006 7:49:19 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1578945

Hard ass politics don't work when all you use is the military. If you look back at the WWII era, hard ass politics were the only thing that saved the US from becoming a Japanese or German colony. Once again, for the 100th time, back then we were fighting another country. Islamic fundamentalism is a state of mind, not a country. What we need is a take no prisoners military and intelligence apparatus when it comes to fighting the Islamo-fascists. Then we also need a more liberal attitude towards other countries with Western ideals such as the Europeans, etc. Then we also need a very aggressive energy-independence policy. Put those together and we would be much better off. The failure of the Bush policy isn't that he calls a spade a spade with the Islamo-fascists, rather it's that he does it too publicly and he has no other strategy. If we had an energy policy committed to energy independence, American involvement in the ME would decline significantly and American attacks by Islamic fundamentalists would decline commensurately.