Comments on: Joe Lieberman’s Feb. 5th speech on the Senate floor

By: Marshall Art

Marshall Art — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 07:11:47 +0000

I totally agree with Sev. Our reputation, that is, our reputation as the baddest on the block, has eroded to a dangerous perception by the Islamic scumbags and it’ll take some serious actions on our part to restore that rep. It needs to read, “Don’t f*** with us.” How we act when others aren’t “f***ing with us” is constantly demonstrated and perhaps needs better marketing. It’s like knowing the toughest dude and saying to those who fear him, “Yeah, he’s tough allright, but he’s really a great guy. He just doesn’t stand for any crap from scumbags.”

By: Charlie

Charlie — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 04:28:48 +0000

Severian “gets it”. I said in a post on another topic that what is lacking in our government is “courage”. We were “courageous” enought to take on the Taliban and Sadaam, yet we haven’t the courage to do what it takes to win. There may seem to be a multitude of reasons for this lack of courage yet, in reality, there are few…and they all revolve around “worrying”…the politicians worry what “the world” thinks of us; they worry about thier next re-election cycle; they worry about what the media will say and show on television…they worry about the U.N.

Discard those “worries” and we could win…and, IMHO, very quickly.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 03:50:30 +0000

Perhaps it’s an exercize in futility to hope that there is a General waiting in the wings that knows how to fight and that the President will put him in the midst of this and let him do just that. When we let al-Sadr go his merry way several years ago, I worried that we might find ourselves in the situation we now face…a hotbed for nostalgic leftists who hunger for the good old days of Vietnam and a Republican Party that worries more about the polls than doing what is necessary – even if it means marching to thwe White House and demanding we win in Iraq-and telling the MSN Sunday show hosts to pound salt.

We are lacking many things in governement presently…courage is the foremost of them. The enemy is not as hard to find as the medial wants us to think (or the adminisration for that matter). They are the people shooting at and bombing our soldiers and civilians. Go after them and kill them.

By: PoliticalCritic

PoliticalCritic — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:08:53 +0000

The message the Senate is sending to the troops is that they have no idea what they’re doing. Debate and dissent are essential to a democracy, but these clowns in Washington won’t even discuss the Iraq mess.

By: Severian

Severian — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:07:16 +0000

I can remember reading Frontinus’s “Stratagems” a few years ago. It’s a collection of military strategies and stories about what worked and what didn’t written by the man who eventually became head of all aqueducts in Rome. Fascinating book, there is one story that particularly hits home in relation to this current situation.

The Roman army once laid siege to a particularly well defended walled city. The Romans demanded surrender, and the city leaders basically told them to pound sand, they had supplies to last 10 years and they weren’t afraid of a siege. The Roman general calmly replied “Well, then we’ll just take the city in the 11th year.” The city surrendered the next day, they knew that if the Roman’s said they would still be there laying siege to the city 11 years from now, they would really still be there, and that their mood would not have been improved by the wait.

This is a critical lesson that is completely lost on the Democrats. The US doesn’t have that kind of reputation, we have the reputation of being whiners and quitters with no stamina or stomach for anything difficult. This is just made worse and worse by Democratic politicians consistently whining and shrieking and undercutting the war effort and desperately trying to find a reason to lose rather than do what’s needed. The Islamists know that all they have to do is keep bloodying our noses and we’ll tank, and have the MSM and Democrats own statements as proof, so they have no reason to get down about the war and decide to take their ball and go elsewhere. By being weak, by looking for reasons to leave, by undercutting the President and the military and the war, they insure that we will never have a stern enough reputation to cause the enemy to despair and withdraw or quit, guarantying a longer conflict and more casualties.