Newark Execution Murders

[kandrathe]

Seems to me that you are ignoring key facts about the whole mess but are quite good at coming off supportive and optimistic, especially about that whole "winning" part.

So I take it you believe that if we were just a little nicer to the murderous extremists they would finally see the error of their ways, or perhaps the rational Islamic world would finally grow a spine and denounce them? Or, maybe we should go back to the Clinton strategy of ignoring them, and whenever they perform a murderous act, we should prove our impotence by lobbing a cruise missile at some token symbolic target? I'm no expert in asymmetrical warfare, but I know you don't win by being weak, hiding from them, ignoring them, or as well by bullying them. From what I've read, we are doing the right things in Iraq now. I don't know if it will work, but in my opinion developing a strategy and trying to do something is better than what had been done the previous two decades. I believe ultimately that this is a battle of will, so whomever flinches first loses. Based on the opinions here, and the ever popular tide it will the us first. So if you are correct and defeat is inevitable, then I fear only more murder, mayhem and bloodshed can follow.