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President Dubya gives his big landmark speech tonight, laying out his case for a so-called surge of 20,0000 troops, which is practically nominal. The bottom line is that, in spite of the anti-Iraq War election last November and the fact that our fortunes there have been only sinking, we will be engaged in that war for the remainder of Dubya's term.
The next two years promises to be a terrible slog. If the jihadists score another big blow in America, it should be that much more devastating, to be struck hard while fully engaged and over-extended in active fighting in a losing war. Indeed, we might be left with using nuclear weapons for retaliation, thinking of J. R. Dunn's Rome argument.
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President Dubya gives his big landmark speech tonight, laying out his case for a so-called surge of 20,0000 troops, which is practically nominal. The bottom line is that, in spite of the anti-Iraq War election last November and the fact that our fortunes there have been only sinking, we will be engaged in that war for the remainder of Dubya's term.
The next two years promises to be a terrible slog. If the jihadists score another big blow in America, it should be that much more devastating, to be struck hard while fully engaged and over-extended in active fighting in a losing war. Indeed, we might be left with using nuclear weapons for retaliation, thinking of J. R. Dunn's Rome argument.
