Losing the will to fight
The American Conservative
by Pat Buchanan
10/09/06
In the aftermath of 9/11, when President Bush ordered the U.S. military to remove the Taliban, who had given sanctuary to al-Qaeda and Osama, America was with him. When he identified Saddam as an integral part of an Axis of Evil hell-bent on America's destruction, the nation supported him. Now America is not so sure. Preventive war as the antidote to terror seems, now that Anbar province has become the world's newest base camp of terror, to have failed us. Democracy as the surest guarantee of U.S. security, now that Hamas, Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Moqtada al-Sadr are rolling up election victories, seems a less persuasive proposition...
http://www.amconmag.com/2006/2006_10_09/buchanan.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Anbar
by Pat Buchanan
10/09/06
In the aftermath of 9/11, when President Bush ordered the U.S. military to remove the Taliban, who had given sanctuary to al-Qaeda and Osama, America was with him. When he identified Saddam as an integral part of an Axis of Evil hell-bent on America's destruction, the nation supported him. Now America is not so sure. Preventive war as the antidote to terror seems, now that Anbar province has become the world's newest base camp of terror, to have failed us. Democracy as the surest guarantee of U.S. security, now that Hamas, Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Moqtada al-Sadr are rolling up election victories, seems a less persuasive proposition...
http://www.amconmag.com/2006/2006_10_09/buchanan.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Anbar
rudkla - 11. Okt, 16:27
