"The message is there is only one God, the Lord of the universe; Muhammed, who is the last messenger and prophet. The Holy Koran is the last revelation to mankind, which obligates by its gospel to embrace Islam and become Muslims and save yourselves from the total pain of the last day."
I ask you, does this sound like somebody who is open to negotiation, apologia or reasoning? Like all the 9/11 bombers, he did not come to his radicalism by way of abject poverty. These people are educated, and come from relative affluence. They aren't going away.
I understand these are hard times. Unemployment, foreclosure and business downturns do a good job turning one's focus inward. Our President does not have any of these excuses. In fact, he has people paid on our dime to keep him informed, as it should be.
And where is he? He "has to have an exit strategy" because "I can't lose the Democratic Party". Excuse me? This is now a political problem?
One of the great tragedies of the twentieth century was that, when Saudi Arabia was leading a coalition that was about to deliver us the first OPEC oil embargo, President Nixon was spending his hours wondering how to handle his firing of Archibald Cox- a circumstance HE created. Like Nixon, Obama is staring down a terrorist problem that is not getting better, and he is focusing on it as an obstacle to re-election. Pakistan has allowed NATO's biggest supply route, the Khyber Pass, to become an obstacle course. What are we doing about it?
Obama wanted this war. Afghanistan was the "good" war. What the hell is he doing? I wish I could tell you..
The people fighting the jihad know exactly what they are doing. In any war, if one side is focused and the other one isn't, what happens next?