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2006-09-01 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

The War Is Coming Whether We Like It Or Not...

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Posted by Ebbons Thrinenter9309 2006-09-01 09:08|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ...I posted this BTW, not sure why I've (pardon the expression) lost my cookie.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-09-01 10:10|| 2006-09-01 10:10|| Front Page Top

#2 A good read, Mike - Thanks. I think Tracinski is one of the better WoT analysts around.

Posted by flyover 2006-09-01 10:15|| 2006-09-01 10:15|| Front Page Top

#3 I believe this is correct. It has been Bush's weak point. It's very important to connect with the American public. They need to be kept current and well informed of issues as large as real war. FDR was the master at this. Bush needs to make weekly policy announcements, gradually leading to the conditions for an all out attack on Iran and other trouble spots. Americans don't like surprises, yet they fail their civic duty to remained informed. Bush is not only commander in chief, decider in chief, he's communicator in chief. He needs to get with it. If he can't do it, let Cheney roll. Cheney's very good at framing isuues, he just frightens half the public like Barry Goldwater did, because he lays it on straight without any gilding. This always causes violent regurgitation in the liberal ranks.

Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-09-01 12:33|| 2006-09-01 12:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Some of the money lines:

It is, indeed, "five minutes to midnight"not just for Israel, but for the West. The time is very short now before we will have to confront Iran. The only question is how long we let events spin out of our control, and how badly we let the enemy hit us before we begin fighting back.

We can't avoid this war, because Iran won't let us avoid it.

Like Hitler, Ahmadinejad regards the free nations of the world as fading "sunset" powers, too morally weak to resist his legions of Muslim fanatics. And when we hesitate to kill Muqtada al-Sadr in Iraq, when we pressure Israel to rein in its attacks on Hezbollah, when we pander to the anti-Jewish bigotry of the "Muslim street"we reinforce his impression of our weakness.

Today's leaders and commentators have less excuse. The "horror" they are afraid of repeating is the insurgency we're fighting in Iraqa war whose cost in lives, dollars, and resolve is among the smallest America has ever had to pay. And it takes no great feat of imagination to project how much more horrible the coming conflict will be if we wait on events long enough for Iran to arm itself with nuclear technology. Among the horrific consequences is the specter of a new Holocaust, courtesy of an Iranian nuclear bomb.

Spot-effing-on, almost dishearteningly so.

Posted by Zenster 2006-09-01 19:09|| 2006-09-01 19:09|| Front Page Top

#5 A blogger on FREEREPUBLIC.com opined that in a few years, the Left(s) will lead an insurrection in America to forcibly but PC/PDeniably impose Socialism and OWG, and later the West - Still gotta wonder how compatible Secular Socialist OWG is gonna be against God/Faith-based Socialist OWG aka Global Caliphate/Islamist State.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-09-01 21:59|| 2006-09-01 21:59|| Front Page Top

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