Obama's "Mission Accomplished"

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by Charles

Considering that "terror" is a tactic as opposed to an adversary, how do you win a war against what is basically an idea?

I'd tend to vote for keeping your mouth shut and minding your own business, but from personal experience, that doesn't work all of the time either.

I'd almost become a hermit, other than I know that some sumbitch wouldn't even be happy with that. And I'd have to deal with him.

Chas

Yes, but a terror-ist is someone who employs terror as a means to an end. And that would be anyone who resorts to violence as a means to an end...basically...which would mean.....We're all terrorists.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

As far as this administration's success in the war on terror, consider how many successful terrorist attacks have occurred on this administration's watch. The strategy of pinpoint attacks against AL Qaeda and Taliban leaders appears to have been quite efficient. Certainly it has been more efficient than the invasion of a country that had not been involved in the attacks. (emphasis added)

Sometimes you're a rapier and other times a bludgeon, but I nearly always find you on target.

Again, you destroyed the impact point.