“In neither the Iraq nor Afghanistan campaigns of this war, were the enemy indigenous and self-supporting. – OldSalt”

“Horseshit Neocon propaganda on “Old Salt” – cedarford”

Well, then, we are of different minds on the matter. I have a very pratical, military mind. I know the kind of logistical “tail” required for those trigger-pullers. The money, major munitions, and the critical infrastructure necessary to sustain the level of battle by the Al Qaeda in Iraq did not originate in the cities and fields of Iraq. No informed military man would think so.

You, on the other hand, have a political mind, and a fairly racist mind as well. The only folks who use the word “Zionists” (and code word “neocon”) are antisemitics. Your hate (and/or that of your fellow travelers) and racism is sufficient to fuel the fantasy that Al Qaeda was never in Iraq, that this war was George Bush’s excellent hairbrained adventure, and that some super-neocon plot brought down the twin towers on 9/11.

I don’t deal with fantasy, and I have little patience for political idiots.

re: claiming only a small outside cadre of “Evildoers” and anti-Israel “Islamofascists” are wacking Americans – cedarford”

I never indicated any such thing. This “Islamic holy war” is populist movement intellectionally consistent with Islam. It has multinational support from a large majority of Muslims in official and ex-officio roles. The reason Americans are getting “whacked” is quite simple: Deterrence failed. We had a feckless Administration in the 1990s and a useless bag of airbags in Congress from the 1970′s to date, who gave our enemies the idea that American could be rolled. Our boys are now paying for that 60′s generation party with their lives.