Lets focus on winning the war, so science and education can flourish
for everyone.

I agree, let's focus on winning the war. When are we going
to start fighting terrorists again?


Joe wrote:
You tell me?

Can Hillary do a better job?


Don't know. It would be hard to do worse.

I'm all for it Doug...tell me who, and how they can do a better job?

Think Kerry could have done better?

Undoubtedly. For one thing, if Senator Kerry were President
he would not regard the war in Iraq as a just a convenient
means of funneling money to his cronies. I also doubt he
would twiddle his thumbs and blame Clinton for Iran's nukes,
North Korea's nukes, totally disregard the Pentagon's advice
about how much troop strength is needed & where, etc etc.



Keep in mind the terrorist have tried many more time to attack the USA
and all plots have been foiled.


Ya think so?


Do we need to fight a kinder, a more gentle war?

No.
We need to actually *fight* the terrorists, and what's more
we need to stop their recruiting/training pipeline that is
ramping up every day.

I would say that brains beat brawn, we are supposed to be
the hi-tech super-capable modern force, not the dumbo-macho
grab-a-big-hammer guys.




Can you explain Global Jihad, and the goal of our enemy?


We have many enemies and they have many different goals.
Fortunately the terrorists are disorganized and illogical,
but we are not using that to our advantage other than just
by luck.



Do they see any difference of a citizen and someone in the military or
have they sworn just to kill us all equally?


Those who attack regular military forces are not terrorists,
by definition.

This is the first place to get a little smarter:
Know your enemy... and I'd take the next step of actually
fighting the enemy, not merely killing large numbers of
random guys who look like they might be the enemy. Or if
that turns out to be the only practical way, killing very
very much larger numbers of them.

DSK