Rattle wrote:

When [Bush] uses that "those of us who love freedom" line its hard to take him seriously or conceive that he has a plan. These people don't want to kill Americans because we love freedom. They want to kill Americans because we're the most prominent political power center for people who don't practice their religion. Maybe what Bush really wants to say is "those of us who love jesus" but, of course, that would be extremely divisive, so he says "freedom," knowing that his constituency sees "freedom" and "jesus" as interchangable concepts.

Every global conflict centers around a battle of ideas. We are not on top of our information warfare game. To prove that point, I only need to reference at any given speech President Bush gives.

Why we are loosing the War on Terror... Rhetoric must be backed by domination... We do not have the balls to hit back any more... We are no longer a dominant force in the world...

It took two large detonations to break the will of the Shinto's in Japan. What is it really going to take to break the will of the Islamic Fascists?

If the USA, UK or even the Israelis continue to value the lives of enemy civilians, then we will lose the war on terror. It is plain to see; the Islamic Fascists only understand martyrdom and/or annihilation; brute force. If we continue to allow them to use their power without a decisive response, we are going to be the group annihilated.

However, if we hit back with truly overwhelming force, not only would we destroy the bad guys, but we'd devastate the will of those that might be recruited into the new ranks of Islamic Fascists; further we would annihilate the support of the enemy civilians.

When we carpet bombed the Nazi's in WWII and then rolled down the streets of Berlin; we not only killed enemy military personnel, we killed enemy civilians. When we detonated two nuclear bombs in Japan, we destroyed military, industrial infrastructure and a very larger civilian population.

We understood, back then, the civilian population allowed a political force and vicariously a military force to exist. It was the civilians that ultimately submitted to the power of the dominant, radical and ruthless.

What does this mean?

Civilians that allow Islamic Fascism to exist are viable targets.

RE: Why our national rethoric is broken -OR- Why we are loosing the War on Terror