Oh Jeeez. This means nothing. He didn’t address what story to tell our stupid peasants. Sending in “special forces” will just turn the war more into a covert ops scenario. This will let the males on our side to murder more of THEIR peasants. Eventually (say 5 years), the “army dudes” would need to be sent in to “clean up the mess”. Nope, if you liberals are fantasizing about fascist males changing their minds all you’ve got to do is talk so some of them about Vietnam (and AGAIN, I’m talking about REAL ‘mericans, not liberal pansies from SF, REAL ‘mericans, from Concord). They’ll tell you what we shoulda done in Vietnam (hitches up pants, grabs crotch). “Yeah, we weren’t allowed to win that war, god-damn hippies…” You liberals are all the same, your like religious fanatics, waiting for “the truth” to enlighten people.

My preference remains deploying more soldiers...I am also open to a substantial reduction in troop numbers..." is this the ultimate Doublespeak, or what? Trying to cover all his bases so he doesn't experience a Connecticut? It didn't work for Joe, either.

I'll bet $100 that, within 1 year, we will hear something to the effect of "military force does indeed work against terrorism; we just didn't implement it correctly (in Iraq)".

Boot's "ideas" are transparently ridiculous. At one pole, to treat Baghdad like Tall Afar would require 260,000 US troops, about twice as many as there are in the whole country. (Source: Cheryl Seal, http://cherylsealreports.com/Bushpotemkinvillage.html).

At the other, only armchair generals are wont to leap at 'risky' strategies which have a significant probability of catastrophic failure.

Mindless swaggering. Why does anyone listen to this man?

Why don't we deploy Max Boot to clean up Iraq? I've long suspected that his name alone, which sounds like the worst sort of Nazi gestapo, would scare the insurgents into submission.

everyone seems to judge Isarel policies and the way it is dealing with its problems. Why dont you go there and give al little hand?
It is very confortable to speak about certain problem in the confort of your home.

I agree that it is esy to be a Monday morning quarterback and that there is no one person who has the complete and full answer to any political issues anywhere, but isn't it the point of discourse to air divergent ideas, to express a thought? Afterall, this blog isn't a meeting of the world leaders [we'd all probably do just about as well as they do].
America is all about different opinions - there's even a place for our friend, John, to sound off, even if he isn't very original.
'Peasants'? It's so sad to see a D&D enthusiast go down a bitter road.

Paul, You certainly are correct when you say "America is all about different opinions". BUT, the only opinions that are heard in America are those of the Republicans and the nazi-fascist neocons who have a total stranglehold over the 241 million od us who did not vote for Bush, the neocons, Big Business or the theocrats.

The 59 million who voted for the Bush crime family have all the power while the rest of us have none because the Dems have been neutralized and our 'system of checks and balances' is gone. We now have ONE PARTY RULE in America just as Hitler did in Germany.

And this one party uses Hitlerian(Rovian) tactics on everyone who does not agree with them and that includes 241 million Americans. Just as Hitler attacked, dehumanized and vilified Jews, books,reasoning and science the Republicans and neocons do exactly the same thing to the rest of us in America. George Bush hates reasoning, the MSM, science and books and ideas. Remember Bush's family were bankers for the nazi party, Silesian Coal and Silesian Steel etc.etc.etc.