Unsk @ 96:”unless America is willing to impose it’s will on a whole host of Islamic nations as well as become self sufficient in oil, COIN should not be tried again”

Could not agree more.

I thought for sure that Bush, in his 9/16/01 speech to a Joint Session of Congress would ask for an 80-division Army to invade, conquer, and reconstruct Arabia and Pakistan, and that his first overseas trip should be to New Delhi. I was actually dumbfounded (nobody ever said I was smart) that he failed to do this.

The whole Iraq adventure was incomprehensible to me, if it was not to be a staging area for the conquest of the rest of Arabia. Ann Coulter, in her “invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert their people to Christianity” quip actually expressed, in very brief form, the sort of war that is required to bring this barbarism to an end.

Until cathedrals are rising in Lahore, Karachi, Riyadh, and Mecca, the war will go on. However much we wish it were not so.

Or until we lose.