Must be why there are so many more gazelles than there are lions.

Of course, I don’t recall the Constitution being shredded, either.

But you’re about to change the topic to what you want to talk about, huh, frame?

And because there’s a very real and imminent likelyhood that a handful of radical islamic yahoos could actually force us all to submit to their religious beliefs we better change our entire way of life, including the shredding of the constitution, to ensure it never happens here.

The enemy is cannier than fire, and when it adapts we should also do so.
But they don’t assess American politics?
You call evacuation adapting?
That’s how gazelles have “adapted” to lions.

If it is common knowledge that it worked for the North Vietnamese, why would al qaeda not have this knowledge, and make use of the tactic?

If we can … rethink our strategy in a more effective manner

What if this is the strategy for years to come?
Then we’re like firefighters who are having trouble putting out a fire, who decide to go away, and come back later when they have figured out a way to put out the fire.

Meanwhile, the building burns to the ground, taking the neighborhood with it.

Even the military people who have advocated withdrawal haven’t suggested that there is a strategy we are not using, that we should be using.

And no one is suggesting that these guys can’t be beaten. You’re not, are you?

The war is chess and our leaders are playing Hungry Hungry Hippos–do one action over and over again in the hopes that you get the most marbles.

And since you don’t have this access or authority, either, I can only assume that you’re doing little more than hypothesizing about the reading materials of terrorists and presenting it with a false air of fact.

If you were able to question the right people, and they were authorized to answer, you probably could get information about the documents and things found when their positions are overrun.

I wasn’t suggesting that “G.I. Achmed” has a WiFi notebook hooked up with “Like Kryptonite to Stupid” bookmarked.

Exactly.

Nobody has yet to prove this dubious “fact” about how our media “emboldens” the terrorists…do we have accounts of slain al-Qaida fighters being found with fresh copies of the NYT on their person? Abandoned hideouts with TVs still tuned to Anderson Cooper?

This may seem far-fetched to Frank and others, but I think terrorists and insurgents are more greatly emboldened by their ability to persistently fight a superior military force to a stalemate–for years, now–than by anything a journalist may or may not say or write. And I suspect the same situation demoralizes our troops moreso than the media analysis as well.

“More of the same” is not a strategy, it is laziness; and the “surge” is quite literally and tragically more of the exact same.

At the risk of sounding like a “thirty percenter” (I’m not sure exactly what that means, but I know it ain’t good), of course, the terrorists have read the papers, or are watching CNN.

They have redoubled their efforts, because dying is no problem for them, but they know it is for us. If they can kill a lot of people in a short amount of time, (they believe) they can incite their American leftist allies to pressure the Dems to pack it in.

Oliver’s statistical “blow – by – blow” is evidence that it is working.

Now, was I kidding that time?
Probably not.

>>sigh

Wrong again, Frank. I was kidding, both times. I do think that just about every adult in the US (with a few notable exceptions) would be less of a fuckup in the oval office than GWB.

Now, was I kidding that time?

Oliver, You’re starting to sound like TV sports announcer with this thing:

I know it’s hard for you to follow, Frank, but what Oliver’s saying is actually pretty simple. Let me break it down for you:

-The past 6 months have been the bloodiest 6 months of the war for US troops.

-April may end up as one of the most bloody months yet.

Pretty damning stuff.

Never let it be said that you had a sense of humor…