Sparhawk

Ah the good ol' days, when we could put 100,000 Japanese-Americans into internment camps, firebomb Dresden and nuke Nagasaki...

The fact of the matter is that there are two sides, equally important, to winning the War on Terror:

1) The military, or "hard" side, in which our special forces units, working with police and military overseas, along with our FBI and other counter-terrorism units stateside are performing brilliantly.

2) The social, or "soft" side, in which we need to win the hearts and minds of the 1 billion Muslims worldwide who aren't terrorists, but are sympathetic to the plight of their fellow Muslims in a world that is increasingly hostile to them. This side of the war we are losing - as a result of, among other things, our negotiation with Israel, where Sharon quite deftly outmaneuvered us, to the struggle in Iraq, where we are seen increasingly as occupiers and not as liberators, to Afghanistan, where the NATO defense force is relegated to the capital city and a few other places, and heroin and opium production is at record levels.

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"In Iraq, no doubt about it, it's tough. It's hard work. It's incredibly hard. It's - and it's hard work. I understand how hard it is. I get the casualty reports every day. I see on the TV screens how hard it is. But it's necessary work. We're making progress. It is hard work."