It is win in Baghdad, Tehran and Damascus, or lose in New York, Los Angeles and Washington.

It's stuff like this that makes me roll my eyes.

We could, of course, defeat and humiliate the Arab/Moslem world. With our military and economic power, we could withdraw to the edges, build up a massive military array, and then start at one end of the Arab world and go on to the other end...destroying everyone who chooses to resist us along the way. This would take many years, would cost untold lives, and might not actually work in the long run...with the additional threat that while we were engaged in, say, Saudi Arabia, the Iranians would detonate a nuclear device in New York City. Divide and conquer is a good rule of warfare, and we don't want to fight the whole Arab/Moslem world...we'd rather work with it, hard as that is, in order to elminate just those elements who hate and destroy.

Our problem is, of course, compounded by those within the United States who act the part of traitor by failing to understand that when they say "its all about oil" or "Bush lied about WMD's", they are playing into the hands of Islamist enemies, making them fight us longer
and harder. But we must persist; fail at this, and the enemy will strike us very hard here at home. It is win in Baghdad, Tehran and Damascus, or lose in New York, Los Angeles and Washington.

First off, what military and economic power? See, when you have to argue with someone that starts off with that misconception, it's all downhill, after that. The deficit doesn't seem to phase him. The fact that recruitment is down, and the troops already stationed in Iraq are insufficient to get any job done, let alone get THE job done again, doesn't phase him.

Of course, halfway through the first paragraph, the enlightened soul does say it "might not actually work" for the very reason it won't work.

The logic is even further convoluted with the usual if you focus on the real motives for Dumbya's invasion of Iraq, i.e., the truth, then, see, it will make the Iraqis fight even harder to make the U.S. leave. This, as always, is seen as being unpatriotic. The truth is irrelevant; you're either on the bandwagon or you're the enemy.

What truly astounds me is their ability to tune out reality. It's shallow and uninformed to say that the opinions of the rest of the world do not matter to this country. It's ignorance, racism and bigotry that perpetuates the myth that the United States is a Christian nation that must convert the heathen Muslims. And it's an outright lie that this war is about bringing democracy to the Middle East.

On an aside, isn't it funny that a majority of right wingnut blogs either don't allow comments, or filter them, while the majority of left wing/liberal blogs elicit and allow free speech? They just talk amongst themselves, muttering pearls of wisdom like the great piece I posted above! And people actually wonder why I drew the line in the sand with my Republican ex-friends?