I don't believe America is.

This needs to be everywhere.

This needed to be everywhere before the last election.

It needs to be read on the floor of the Senate and the House on the first day of the new session.

It needs to be read on Rush, and Hannity, and on Bill O'Reilly.

It needs to be emailed to everyone each of us knows, especially those who are saying the things J-TAS is arguing against.

The US is well down the path to throwing away another victory, in another important war, just as we did in Vietnam.

We're not ready, and won't be, because we've been defeated by our own leftist media.

The "Do as I want or I'll sic the ACLU on you" America is not ready to win. But this American is ready. You can't fight a war like a polo match. You need to fight it for what it is -- a nasty business. However, in order to be a high ranking officer in the military, you need to be a political kiss-ass -- meaning you don't want to put yourself in a position where a John Kerry-like President would put you out to pasture for doing your job.

There are too many Jimmy Carters and Bill Clintons who want this treated as a criminal matter -- not as a matter of national survival. There are too many people -- in politics, in the media, in academia -- who would see this battle fought in the streets of Omaha, much less New York or Los Angeles. They would not say that, of course -- but that would be the result of their desired policies.

When a group of people says, "We want to kill you," I take them at their word. I don't spend a lot of time worrying about how I may have offended them. It might just be that I breathe.

Excellent article, afw. What can I say? I hate hearing the frustration of these guys, knowing we will continue to fight an unwinnable PC "war". I wish it was not so, I am all for using whatever it takes to win, allowing our soldiers to do what they have been trained for.

I hope Aridog gets to see this, he's been saying it all along.

Read it. The soldier is right of course. The blame lies right here, at our feet collectively. We even now jail our Border Patrol agents who non-fataly shot a fleeing illegal alien drug smuggler in the ass, in fact we gave the drug smuggler a pass on his drug smuggling, before and after the shooting, brought him back here at tax payer expense, to testify against the agents. Just to make this perfectly PC, the agents themselves are Hispanic Americans. There has been no major hue and cry from Congress nor the public. They just do not care.

Message to Border Patrolmen...do not interdict illegal aliens with or without drugs, merely take notes and write a report.

All of DoD and DHS is afflicted with this blight. Performance is sub-serviant to a "green" color on a PowerPoint Bar chart, agressive offense is well behind editorial opinion in our planning. We fight not the enemy, but ourselves. Communal masterbation.

Well, we have done exactly the same thing with our soldiers in harms way. When PC takes over military operations, all but perfunctory operations cease. I have seen it. I have experienced it. It is as lethal to our national interests and to the soldiers themselves as any plague. Worse actually, because eventually the soldiers begin to squabble amongest themselves.

As I remarked at the time of publication, nothing I have read in my lifetime is more depressing than the ISG Report. It makes me wonder just what I ever believed in, why I ever wore a uniform, in fact, in light of the tone, can I even say I am proud now to be an American.

It has been almost 66 years since this form of disaffecting double speak began in earnest during the Korean War. 50 years since the Vietnam redux. It appears we have learned nothing, so comfortable we are in our lives and materiality. Do you know what? This, in part, makes our enemies right about us!

That alone should bother us. Last night CBS 60 minutes did a Abu Ghraid re-do, with the appropriate hang wringing and self immolation. As if Abu Ghraid compares even slightly to what the enemy does every day. We neeed to be indoctrinated I guess.

It is working. We will not decline and fall from a big bang, or even with a sniveling whimper. We are collapsing of our own weight, rot and intellectual fungii.

We CAN stop it. Question is, will we?

Correction.....

It has been almost 66 56 years since this form of disaffecting double speak began in earnest during the Korean War. 50 40 years since the Vietnam redux.

My fingers apparently think I am older than I am.

I need to ask...has anyone (?) read the ISG Report without their jaw literally dropping open? without wondering if you occupy the same planet as the authors? They're "greybeards" all, but so am I a greybeard...and I cannot fathom where the crap in that report came from...it has to be alien. I just know that these MF'ers can't have lived in the same time or plane as me.

Aridog, I think they are so out of touch with what is really happening on the ground. They are surrounded by bodyguards, press, handlers and yes-men. How the hell can they presume to have the "answer" to Iraq from spending limited time there?

I was disappointed to see Alan Simpson on this panel, I have great respect for the man.

I need to ask...has anyone (?) read the ISG Report without their jaw literally dropping open? without wondering if you occupy the same planet as the authors?

I kept finding myself shaking my head in complete disbelief. They're supposed to be the experts and they're that completely deluded/stupid/opportunistic/naive/evil/combination of one or all of the above?

All I know is that their reality bears very little resemblance to the reality I see. Somebody's right, somebody's wrong, and time will tell. I don't want to think about how many more will die in the telling.

has anyone (?) read the ISG Report without their jaw literally dropping open? without wondering if you occupy the same planet as the authors?

No and no.

Somebody's right, somebody's wrong, and time will tell. I don't want to think about how many more will die in the telling.

Once you enter the battle you are right. By definition. You are only wrong if you are defeated or surrender.

There is no time depedancy for outcomes.

The winners make the rules. Repeat: WINNERS make the rules.

Where DOES this grotesque posture of apology, dithering, and sub-serviance come from?

Aridog - it's interesting to read your take on it.



This is how the Roman and Byzantine empires collapsed. And to a lesser extent, the Greeks. (No, zorkie, not your Greeks. :P)

What we fail to learn from history we are doomed to repeat?

The benefit of Democracy in a Republic is comfort.

The hidden enemy of Democracy in a Republic is comfort.

Heddonism can thrill you, or kill you.

[....get you laid, or laid out. ]

Okay, cliche' spouting done for today :-)

Quoting me....The winners make the rules. Repeat: WINNERS make the rules.

The ISG Report portrays us as losers. The Islamists see themselves as winners.

Not a great portend for the future.

Funny how the left and Al-Qaeda are rooting for the same outcome. If they weren't self-lobotomized, that would give them pause.

Re: The Holocaust Denial Conference-

I believe there is a reason for this conference. In his own twisted way, Ahmadinejehad is dotting his i's and crossing his t's, in a legalistic sense, for the period, perhaps only a couple of years away, when Iran launches nuclear weapons at Israel.

It is similar to the 'last chance to convert to Islam' letters he has sent to Bush and the American people.


I used to assume Iran would maintain plausible deniability if it did want to attack Israel with nukes, and pass a weapon or two on to Hezb'Allah or Hamas, but they may just wait until they think they have enough missiles and warheads to overwhelm Israel's antimissile defense, and take their chances that a Dolphin in the Persian Gulf fires a couple of cruise missiles with small nuke warheads at a few Iranian cities. The Iranian leadership would be in shelters before they launched, and have already expressed a willingness to lose a few hundred thousand of their own. Note also Iran has apparently been working on making their missiles more survivable from anti-missile systems, with decoys and the such.


Not to be Bigelish (and I don't see Israel attacking France or Russia, even though Russia has been facilitating Iran's nuclear weapons program), but I can easily imagine a nuclear exchange in the Mid East in the next few years.


I now have severe doubts Bush, especially since he has appointed a Baker Commission appeaser as SecDef, will attack Iran. I think the only way Israel exists as a country, barring the ever possible Divine Intervention (the First or Second Coming, depending on your flavor of Abrahamic faith), more than a couple of years into the future, is to attack Iran now, even though it has limited capabilities to destroy multiple hardened targets across at least one Arab state, as at worst it delays Iran's program, and (I know this sounds grim) at best, triggers an Iranian overreaction, which draws the US into the conflict, after which we would destroy their nuclear program.