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View Poll Results: What the hell should we do?
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Send mre troops and beat them down, even if we draft?
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Throw it on the United Nations Lap. Thats what they there for.
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12-13-2006, 10:51 AM
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Unfortunately, that's about the level of dialogue that's directed our foreign policy the past five years 
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We spent the 90's in dialogue. |
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12-13-2006, 11:05 AM
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We spent the 90's in dialogue.
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And it was during this period of "dialogue" that the omnipresent hatred for everything American grew and festered to the point that led to 9/11. |
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. ~John Buchan
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12-13-2006, 11:16 AM
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And it was during this period of "dialogue" that the omnipresent hatred for everything American grew and festered to the point that led to 9/11.
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Wow, that's a silly statement.
I'm assessing a 15 yard penalty for oversimplification abuse.
-spence |
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12-13-2006, 11:20 AM
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Wow, that's a silly statement.
I'm assessing a 15 yard penalty for oversimplification abuse.
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I'm assessing a matching 15 yard penalty for Analysis Paralysis. |
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12-13-2006, 11:48 AM
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I'm assessing a matching 15 yard penalty for Analysis Paralysis.
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Overruled by the Chair Umpire!
You don't undertake a global effort costing a trillion dollars and tens of thousands of lives without some basic understanding of what's understandable.
Well, Bush does...but you and I shouldn't 
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12-13-2006, 12:08 PM
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Overruled by the Chair Umpire!
You don't undertake a global effort costing a trillion dollars and tens of thousands of lives without some basic understanding of what's understandable.
Well, Bush does...but you and I shouldn't
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Come on, this isn't Tennis its Football. The time to partake in engaging dialouge and nuance study ended with the pre-season (September 11, 2001). The dialogue that remains should be on the level of our military leadership and field commanders. Let the quarterbacks call the plays and this game will be won. Bin Laden's true victory will come when America locks itself into an unwinnable debate over whether we should fight back or not. |
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12-13-2006, 12:25 PM
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Come on, this isn't Tennis its Football. The time to partake in engaging dialouge and nuance study ended with the pre-season (September 11, 2001). The dialogue that remains should be on the level of our military leadership and field commanders. Let the quarterbacks call the plays and this game will be won. Bin Laden's true victory will come when America locks itself into an unwinnable debate over whether we should fight back or not.
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Well said. |
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. ~John Buchan
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12-13-2006, 12:49 PM
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Let the quarterbacks call the plays and this game will be won. Bin Laden's true victory will come when America locks itself into an unwinnable debate over whether we should fight back or not.
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Absurdity.
Even the neoconservatives who architected the strategy have blasted the quarterbacks for demonstrating near zero competence in calling plays.
This isn't about fighting versus not fighting back, it never was and it never will be.
The question is "how" we go about fighting back.
Do we follow a militarized pre-emptive doctrine rooted in idiological fantasy and executive arrogance?
...or do we use all our weapons including military, economic, polical to competently demonstrate by example why the US should be the leader in the world.
You're just rehashing divisive election year rhetoric 
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12-13-2006, 04:04 PM
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Wow, that's a silly statement.
I'm assessing a 15 yard penalty for oversimplification abuse.
-spence
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For you to throw a flag would mean you are a referee. You are at most a commentator, and a biased one at that.  |
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. ~John Buchan
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12-13-2006, 06:19 PM
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Dems fairy-tail
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