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Originally Posted by ubertuber
Nice one. While I'm inclined to suspect this report is accurate, I'm sure that you're correct that both sides selectively demonize agencies/policies.
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Of course you do, and if the report was in fact the other way around I'm sure I would not have been the one to bring up the intelligence agencies but someone else would have on the other side.
While the story itself is designed to paint a 'the sky is falling' picture (it is the NYT's after all) even if it were 100% accurate I am not concerned as I don't view this conflict as USA vrs Al Queda but a cultural conflict of Western Civ vrs Radical Islam. Perhaps Iraq accelerated the process and thats a good thing. As I view the upcoming conflict inevitable, it is far better to face it now when we have by far the technological superiority than later. When you look around the worlds hot spots and see how many are 'jihads' its pretty clear that had we never gone into Iraq radical Islam would still be committing acts of terrorism all over. It is also my belief that the waffling, wavering, and whining of the left is going to do far more to embolden our enemies than a military action. If the left succeeds and gets us to pull out of iraq prematurely it will do far more to further the cause of radical islam then a steadfast resolve. We are there now, why doesn't matter, to lose is unthinkable from a long term point of view.
The terrorists can’t win in Iraq without your support. Perhaps that is the one reason to elect a democrat (provided they are sane) as suddenly the press would find that not all is bleak in Iraq, and perhaps some of the vitriolic nonsense can be put away for the good of the future of our country and our way of life.