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Hey Bernie,

A quote from our mutual friend. Do you still say that you agree with him?

The President vetoed our troops and the American people. His stubborn commitment to a failed strategy in Iraq is incomprehensible. He committed our great military to a failed strategy in violation of basic principles of war. His failure to mobilize the nation to defeat world wide Islamic extremism is tragic. We deserve more from our commander-in-chief and his administration.
--Maj. Gen. John Batiste, USA, Ret.

Note the part where he mentions the violation of the basic principles of war - something I have said from day 1.


Mike, fighting does not have to be done with just bombs, bullets, and bayonets. There are many more avenues we should be exploring to combat extremeists. I personally think that many of those avenues will be a lot more productive than what we are doing now. Even the definition of jihad is not limited to use of weapons. Jihad can mean a lot of different things - and not all of them are bad. I agree that it will probably take a couple of generations or more to eliminate Islamic radicals, but there has to be some changes in thinking by a number of people in order to get it done.

Ron,
How do you define being in the middle? I am not registered as either Dem or GOP. There are times that I think one or the other party is more correct about a certain issue.

Steve