Posted by
THBarb on Tuesday, July 24, 2007 5:06:47 PM
I urge you to support General Petraeus and allow
him to finish the job in Iraq. The government of Iraq is the wrong
benchmark to use. It may be a long time before they come up to speed to
meet any benchmarks we set for them. However, the conflict in Iraq is
NOT the war, it is merely the largest battle front.
There have been thousands of attacks by the Jihadist's world wide over
the last decade. This branch of fanaticism is flexing it's muscle and
it sees every step we take backwards as an opportunity to take a step
forward. We need to hold our ground. We cannot afford to offer them any
sort of encouragement.
The book they read is sorted in order by book size and has sayings of
peace through out it. However, when placed in chronological order, it
starts with peace and progresses to violence calling for the submission
of all.
We may eventually be able to negotiate with them. But if we cannot
negotiate from a position of strength, the only thing we will have to
offer to them is submission. And that will be the end of our freedom.