Leave 'steamed' alone.
Interesting article. Word games are "new" to the GOP per this piece; The words are very old and well known to the FF... and not meant as a game. Tokyo Rose was a joke for older, stronger and wiser westerners who could see through her propaganda in WW II. The new X generation or whatever they are called today swallow the hook of the FF PR machine with great enthusiasm and resist their own government's with equal disdain. Some will consider it sad; others, overdue.
The below comments are posted on the walls of the bunker as a constant reminder of the western allies of the past who have made the current FF's job so much easier today. The "new Romans" have reached the end of their power, stick their head in the sand and hope it will just all go away so they can watch the game on TV and put themselves to sleep with liquor and drugs all the while knowing, as they have been trained to believe, that their government will feed, care and house them until their death. And so will be the slow and agonizing spiral into poverty, despair and the final acceptance of the collapse of their civilization:
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"I congratulate (the Islamic nation) for the victory of Islam in Iraq." You remember I told you more than a year ago that the American withdrawal from Iraq is only a matter of time, and here they are now ... negotiating with the Mujahedeen. The American forces with their planes, missiles, tanks and fleets are mourning and bleeding, seeking for a getaway from Iraq. Regarding your withdrawal timetable ... you have to admit, Bush, that you have been defeated in Iraq and are being defeated in
Afghanistan and will be defeated in Palestine." he said.
Ayman al-Zawahri
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060106/aponremiea/zawahritape
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Osama bin Laden has written that the "defeat of... American forces in Beirut" in 1983 is proof America does not have the stomach to stay in the fight. He's declared that "in Somalia the United States [pulled] out, trailing disappointment, defeat, and failure behind it." And last year, the terrorist Zawahiri declared that Americans "know better than others that there is no hope in victory. The Vietnam specter is closing every outlet."
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The Western man today has no stomach for a fight. This phenomenon is not new: All empires produce this type of man, the self-centered, materialist, and risk-averse man."
Hassan Abbasi, formerly director of the Revolutionary Guard's Center for Security Doctrines Research, and now chief foreign policy adviser to the new President of Iran
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"Iran is a civilised nation. You need us more than we need you. All of you today need the Iranian nation,' 'Why are you putting on airs? You don't have that might."
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the hardline President of Iran
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0%2C16937%2C1686652%2C00.html
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The United States cannot possibly win a war against China because Beijing "holds no value at all for human life. If tensions mount between the United States and China, the two sides could pull the trigger on each other. Then the more the fire expands, the United States, which has a [progressive] civil society that highly values human life, would not be able to win."
Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara
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Your [US] enemy has ancient wisdom. They learn from Korea, and Vietnam with the French and then you; now they apply all the lessons. The price of defeat for Americans goes down each time. Maybe next time Iran or China buy victory from America wholesale and on the cheap.
Hai-lan
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What may be the growing prevalence of the conspiracy theorists concerns me in this: not only is it an insult to those who died on 9/11, it does make me question -- if just for a moment -- whether we in the United States really have the will to fight and win the war against terror.
Betsy Hart
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Osama bin Laden has written that the "defeat of... American forces in Beirut" in 1983 is proof America does not have the stomach to stay in the fight. He's declared that "in Somalia the United States [pulled] out, trailing disappointment, defeat, and failure behind it." And last year, the terrorist Zawahiri declared that Americans "know better than others that there is no hope in victory. The Vietnam specter is closing every outlet."
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Your [US] enemy has ancient wisdom. They learn from Korea, and Vietnam with the French and then you; now they apply all the lessons. The price of defeat for Americans goes down each time. Maybe next time Iran or China buy victory from America wholesale and on the cheap.
Hai-lan
http://johnib.wordpress.com/2007 1/19/is-america%e2%80%99s-way-of-war-%e2%80%9ci-win-you-lose%e2%80%9d/
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"Unlike Americans who are eager to put this messy time behind us, our adversaries have time on their side, and they will use it. They plan to fight a battle of attrition, hoping to drag the battle out until the American public loses its will to fight. This might be difficult to believe in this euphoric time of flag waving and patriotism, but it is generally acknowledged that America lacks the stomach for a long fight... Although we hope that Usama Bin Laden is no Giap, he is certain to understand and employ the concept. We can expect not only large doses of pain like the recent attacks, but also less audacious sand in the gears tactics, ranging from livestock infestations to attacks at water supplies and power distribution facilities. These attacks are designed to hit us in our comfort zone forcing the average American to pay more and play less and eventually eroding our resolve. But it can only work if we let it. It is clear to me that the will of the American citizenry - you and I - is the center of gravity the enemy has targeted. It will be the fulcrum upon which victory or defeat will turn. He believes us to be soft, impatient, and self-centered. He may be right, but if so, we must change. The Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz, (the most often quoted and least read military theorist in history), says that there is a remarkable trinity of war that is composed of the (1) will of the people, (2) the political leadership of the government, and (3) the chance and probability that plays out on the field of battle, in that order.
Dr. Tony Kern, Lt Col, USAF (Ret)
Former Director of Military History, USAF Academy
14 September, 2001
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CTV (Canadian Television Network) News Sun. Apr. 9 2006 3:26 PM ET | Canadian Press
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan
"...the resolve of the Canadian people is weak'
As MPs gather in Ottawa to discuss Canada's more combative role in southern Afghanistan, a senior Taliban official and coalition commanders painted two disparate images Sunday of where the war is headed. In a weekend interview with The Canadian Press, insurgent spokesman Qari Yuosaf Ahmedi said the Taliban are convinced the resolve of the Canadian people is weak. As suicide attacks and roadside blasts increase, the public will quickly grow weary, he said. "We think that when we kill enough Canadians they will quit war and return home," Ahmedi said in an interview, conducted through a translator,...
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The Wall Street Journal (August 3, 1995) published an interview with Bui Tin who served on the General Staff of the North Vietnam Army and received the unconditional surrender of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975. During the interview Mr. Tin was asked if the American antiwar movement was important to Hanoi's victory. Mr. Tin responded "It was essential to our strategy" referring to the war being fought on two fronts, the Vietnam battlefield and back home in America through the antiwar movement on college campuses and in the city streets. He further stated the North Vietnamese leadership listened to the American evening news broadcasts "to follow the growth of the American antiwar movement."
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Nice job of connecting Iraq with 9/11 and Islamic terror organizations like al Qaeda.
Pure propaganda. Bin Laden would be proud. So would Karl Rove
ginowhitaker
Careful now...you're "poking the bear".