No doubt that war game took about as long as a round of rock-paper-scissors where he realized he had had very small scissors and we had a very large rock.

An option is only as good as the willingness to use it. Absent 9/11, we'd be just that much farther along to becoming a Euro-style welfare state.

100s of smart people have forseen the issue. No one can beat us, but we can beat ourselves.

I think that the most important reason we haven't seen a repeat of 9/11 is because Islamic fundamentalists know that would move a bunch more of us to the right.

erp:

You are affording too much acumen to islamofascists. They don't care if we move right or left, their only concern is killing all of us regardless of our political ideology. The reason we haven't seen another 9/11, or worse, is because they haven't been able to mount another operation.

Bruno:

That's backwards. 9-11 has only slowed the Third Way Reformation, providing an artificial rallying point for the reactionary Left.

We can't beat ourselves because demographics are making us more like ourselves than we've been since the 20s.

I think Islamic fundamentalist leaders are a bit savvier than the crazies we see on TV shaking their fists and shooting their machine guns in the air. They were surprised by our reaction to 9/11 and don't want to test it again.

I do, however, also give full credit to Bushco for our super efforts against terrorism both here and abroad

o/t It's no end of amusing. Our president did it again by rejecting the Dem leadership's request for a closed door session. The facts will fall where they may. I really hope they don't get smarter and stop falling for the same banana peel trick every time.

Pervez Musharraf is a fool. He will either quit or be overthrown soon after he returned to Pakistan. He makes a few bucks with his book, but he sounds so weak back home, keeling over to the great Satan's threat. It might have been the logical thing to do in a logical world. But the Muslim crazies are not logical. They don't care about or even understand strategic concerns. They submitted to Musharraf's rule because he was perceived to be strong. Now they know better. I bet M will declare his desire to retire by the end of the year.

"They were surprised by our reaction to 9/11 and don't want to test it again"

erp - read this and I think you will have a different view on the matter. Test it again is exactly what they do want.

http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/site/modules/news/article.php?storyid=589

Libya saw the light too.

No, they submit because they're even weaker.

BJW - It sounds like braggadocio to me.

We'll be tested in '09-10. It's coming.

Barely a quiz.

Does anyone else remember the Musharref TV appearance he made to announce his acceptance or our point of view? I vividly recall both that he said that protecting one man, meaning OBL, was not worth millions if deaths.

More than the words, I remember how scared the man looked--really, really scared.

Superior terror smashed terrorism, as it ever shall.

As to Pakistan gaming out a war with the United State, the above comments are most valid. The game would make Omdurman look like an even match.