On Wed, 25 May 2005 13:49:42 -0700, "John Smith"
wrote:

James:

If you haven't noticed, we ARE right in the middle of the right place to
find enemies... if you don't think there are tightly knit groups of
radicals right in Iraq and most of the other surrounding countries, think
again... better to fight them there than here... at least the gauntlet has
been thrown down on foreign soil and the battles and war can take place
there... life goes on as usual here, children attend school, retired people
vacation and there are NO suicide bombings or terrorist attacks--there is
enough there to busy their hands... let the war stay there...

Warmest regards,
John
****

Personally I do not like the idea of fighting radicals like the
insurgents of Iraq on their home land. Not a good strategy. They will
play the game of attritian. They will die to remove us. The only way
to fight that kind of fight was lost two years ago. We should have
pacified the country and we did not. Now we have to fight a war in
which the enemy refuses to show their face.

They are willing to sacrifice bodies to kill us. Each one of them that
dies is a hero and a martyr. In reality we can never truly win in
Iraq. The best that we now can hope for is a situation where both
sides will grow so tired of fighting that they wish to quit. Five
years from now Iraq will be an Islamic state very much like Iran.
Irregardless of what we do now. I predict that the democracy that we
set up, will not last beyond five yrs.

james