That's right Michael. The "public" dissemination of information and opinion in recent memory has been overwhelmingly controlled by these "thinkers."

We all know that "thinkers" must be constantly thinking of new solutions, much as a shark must be constantly swimming to survive.

Thus, what would seem whacky, just a few years before--through the evolution of envelope pushing--becomes the accepted "truth".

Michael -

I would have to respectfully disagree. I think we have thoroughly impressed our foe. I believe that they are quite impressed indeed with how innately stupid these decisions are when one is, in effect, fighting what amounts to guerrilla warfare. I recall scenese from the movie "The Patriot" where the British forces marched directly into the line of fire and "expected" their foe to do likewise. It was the "gentlemanly" way to fight a war and Cornwallis was appalled when the militia would not fight that way, but instead fought to WIN!!!

What would George Patton and John Pershing thought of trying to impress the enemy this way? The way to impress the Muslims is by dropping pig entrails on them or making Meca glow in the dark. Teddy Roosevelt expressed it best, "Speak softly and carry a big stick".

You're darn tootin'! Well, it's time for Obama and his radical administration to discover who he really needed to impress. On Election Day this coming November -- and again in 2012 -- Americans need to get out in droves to send the clearest possible signal to Washington that this is the worst leadership we have EVER seen.

Actually, a sane leader would have gotten the message already, after the triple-play in NJ, VA and MA. But instead of learning his lessons, Obama stubbornly clings to the ultra-Leftist ideology that drove away his independent voters in the first place. Americans wanted change, well they got it! And they don't like what they're seeing.

The good news is, Liberals are their own worst enemies. When they get the floor, they can't shut up. And sooner or later they say insane things that leave Americans appalled. So the best way to fight these radicals is to urge them on -- KEEP TALKING, LIBERALS! Keep talking. Turn up the volume!

So this is what it takes to rescue jimmy carter's presidency! Up until now I thought jimmy was the worst. What amazes me is the number of people who say they approve of obama's work. What?!!

Kev, you're right. It IS amazing. If this is success, what on Earth would failure look like?? Good lord.

The educated class is an oxymoron. They are generally a class of fools, educated in imbecile theories and too dumb to know it

Well, Howard Last, to answer part of your question, let's read what George S. Patton, Jr. wrote in his 1927 treatise, "Why Men Fight":

As has already been pointed out, our present bulk makes active National Patriotism largely impalpable. Stress of war, particularly if one of invasion, or one in which we were initially unsuccessful will, to a degree, crystallize this feeling, but in the meantime the situation would be improved if pacifist moves were treated with less tolerance. The prompt shooting of some scores of conscientious objectors would go far towards removing bellicose inhibitions.

Another move which might be easily instituted at the beginning of the next war would be to explain to editors, most of whom are patriotic, that the printing of sob stories amounts to a traitorous act. Men in combat are too weary or excited to entertain the thoughts and emotions attributed to soldiers by the sick brains of unwarlike writers while the pre-battle reading of such stuff by new soldiers simply subjects them to useless and brutal mental torture, as they anticipate feeling these fictitious emotions and, in prospect, suffer many pangs which their actual experience will subsequently prove nonexistent."

Most certainly these left-wing intellectuals would find great offense in these words but as for me and my house, I find them quite sensible.

While I understand the concept that "the Constitution and the Declaration of Independance must apply to everyone, or it means nothing" (to paraphrase Captain Kirk), as they say, therein lies the rub: What the Muslim world fears most is that we will try to make our founding documents apply to them, and the concept of "all men (and women) are created equal" is completely foreign to their mindset. The only way to impress them is to eliminate the most radical elements with extreme prejudice. Our founding documents and the ideas they represent must be defended at all costs, or they mean nothing. We are in NO way obligated to treat these terrorist scum-bags as either lawful combatants or citizens of our great nation. We cannot change their minds, therefore we must eliminate them for our own protection.