All right, Mr. President, let's stop pussyfooting around. Win quickly and decisively, then worry about setting up a postwar government for Afghanistan. Don't stop because of their Holy Days, especially Ramadan this winter. Muslim leaders certainly haven't respected the time, as noted by Jonah Goldberg:
"...let's just get the inconvenient facts out of the way. Muslims have been killing each other, and other people, during Ramadan for centuries. Mohammed himself opened a clay urn of whup-ass on tribes outside Mecca during Ramadan, in 624 AD. Iraqis and Iranians killed each other over Ramadan with great aplomb during their war. Anwar Sadat of Egypt launched the Yom Kippur war on Israel during Ramadan, with little respect to his own religion and even less for Israel's. Besides, as Tod Linberg of Policy Review points out, if we did stop bombing because of Ramadan, that would send the signal that we are waging war against Muslims - instead of against terrorists, as we keep insisting."
Muslims have been up in arms over civilian casualties in Afghanistan. Yet, when several Pakistanis burst into a Christian church and massacred at least 16 men, women and children and critically wounded five others, nary a peep was heard by U.S. networks or outraged Muslim leaders overseas. The same ones who demand tolerance and religious freedom in our country, then deny it to their own citizens.
I've heard many times from Democratic politicians and television pundits who give a smarmy grin while suggesting that Republicans are hypocrites for advocating more government money to fight the war on terrorism.
What a ridiculous notion. The only federal programs that conservatives ever liked are exactly the ones needed now. I'd much rather my tax dollars were spent on strengthening homeland security than a project on how growing sweet potatoes underwater.
Last week, Democratic Senator Joseph Biden warned that if America continued bombing Taliban forces, we are on the verge of becoming known as a high tech bully.
Maybe someone should remind Biden of Gen. George Patton's quote: "Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
I'm just fine with fighting unfairly, senator. I would like 100% of our troops to return home safely, and I wish you would, too.
After the Civil War, Southern ladies used to wish it away as "the late unpleasantness." Here's hoping that the Left doesn't try to end the war on terrorism too soon and get to politically correct so that the public's minds are distracted from what is really important, and that's the 'Current Unpleasantness', i.e. the War on Terrorism.
It is not just a coincidence that the most prosperous nations are the ones who espouse freedom and democratic ideals.
It really chaps my hide that the world at large, even the democracies of the West, are again criticizing Israel for doing exactly what the U.S. is: Fighting terrorism.
In our case, the bastards killed nearly 5,000 people. In Israel's case, the Palestinian terrorists killed a high-ranking minister. Either way, why should we condemn the Israelis for fighting back and seeking to apprehend the killers just as Bush is doing in Afghanistan? I say, go get 'em Israel and punish them severely - and all who harbor them - including Yasser Arafat.
Last week we marveled at how Cynthia McKinney could show her face in public; this week Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan condemned the U.S.-led bombing of Afghanistan, saying Washington had not proven its case against terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden.
There are American self-haters out there, folks, but they are being largely ignored and castigated by the rest of the country this time, because this was an attack on innocent Americans on our own soil.
And those who think they're more patriotic just because they disagree with the bombing and protest on the streets: The bravest in Berkeley are those who support the war publicly, not the hippie peaceniks who march against our military.
IOC member Gerhard Heiberg of Norway apologized for remarks casting doubt over whether the Winter Olympics should be held in Salt Lake City in February. He was quoted as saying, ''A country at war can't organize the Olympic Games.''
Considering he's a member of the organization that gave Hitler an Olympics and just awarded the Communist regime of China the 2008 Games, I think it's okay for the world's leading democracy to host the Winter Olympic Games while whipping a worldwide cancer.