Cahill also wrote “Gifts of the Jews”. Another good one. One ALL Muslims should keep in mind as they support this senseless Islamofacist B.S…..

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I posted late, so others have said what I would have liked to have said. I will say that, back when this whole thing got started in 2001, I attended a Navy League lunch in NYC, where Lt. General Robert Magnus was the speaker. I asked him how long he though the war would go on. He responded “About thirty years.”

God bless them.

Recently I cleaned out some more of my books, so I have it here in my hot little hands. “How the Irish Saved Civilization” by Thomas Cahill. Forget the politics of the author. Forget the Irish (if you can/dare). The book starts with a bang – “On the last , cold day of December in the dying year we count as 406, the river Rhine froze solid, providing the natural bridge that hundreds of thousands of hungry men women and children had been waiting for. They were the barbari….”

Read it all. Think about it. We do not have a choice. We must win the war. On every battlefield – Afghanistan, Iraq, East Timor, Muslim Paris suburbs – all of them around the world) for as long as it takes. It is like AIDS. Forget the sheepdog/flock analogy. Think T cells.

You won’t read the book, I know, but one lesson is that the Romans could not conceive of the fact that the most magnificent civilization in history could fall to uncivilized barbarians. And that it can happen JUST LIKE THAT! When things seem to be going as usual.

It is totally beside the point whether or not the Iraqis like us, or whether their culture is fertile soil, or whether or not the troops are getting worn down from constant redeployment, or whether or not we have support from our Europeans ‘allies’, or whatever facile, emotionally comforting, Bush bashing rationalization for quitting some jerk like Murtha or Punch can come up with. Lose, or even APPEAR to lose one more war – one more!, kids, and we, as a nation and a culture are yesterday’s stale toast.

Another thing that bugs me is ignorance of (for want of a better short title) the avalanche effect. But I really need my own blog….

A short recon of what?ǂ

A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention updated throughout the day…so check back often. This is a weekend edition so updates are as time and family permits….