We are unfortunate enough to be in a war, on a war footing, and as usual, the war we are in now does not respond to the lessons we learned the last time we were dumb enough to get into a war.

Getting into a war is, in many ways, a confession of incompetence and mismanagement. Skilled handling of relationships and public relations and diplomacy has failed over and over again.

But being in a war is like being pregnant; you may regret it but there is no turning back gracefully. This was was thrust upon us in a violent and dramatic upgrade, even if we were too stupid to see the formative conditions, the prequelae, shaping up whe they might have been handled by less extreme means. Now it is a death struggle.

It is not just an embarassing negotiation or a diplomatic problem at the present point. And the present point is what has to be handled,

As for "hating the United States" this is a ridiculous, semantically null expression for those who (a) don't what the United States is or means, having never seen mor eof it than one mis-aimed bomb or shell in their living rooms or (b) are using the term misguidedly for personal advantage, the "Let's you and them fight" method of political control.

The WTC was not turned to bloody ashes by demonstrators or by rhetoric, however much they may have initiated the motion. The building was smashed terrorist troops under the mission control of a psychotic desert-rat trying to disguise himself as a religous zealot. This is bullshit, a manipulative cover story with no more substance than last week's sit-com. He is about as religous as a turkey turd, appearances notwithstanding.

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