I think they've been a little bit too rough on (the United States). |
I think when you suggest that civil liberties are just as much at risk today as the country is from terrorism, you've gone too far if you leave that impression. |
If there's any good news here, it's that computers are getting attacked all the time. |
If this is how other private companies are thinking, it's a very bad potential warning, |
If those countries were not oil producers, we would probably not be meeting with their leaders. There is some tension with Bush's democracy-promotion agenda. They are pulling in different directions. |
If we really believe that military personnel need months of intensive training before being at their best - as logic suggests and other evidence would seem to prove - it is hard to believe that most Reservists in Iraq are really as strong as active-duty troops, especially when they first arrive in country. |
If we really believe that military personnel need months of intensive training before being at their best – as logic suggests and other evidence would seem to prove – it is hard to believe that most reservists in Iraq are really as strong as active-duty troops, especially when they first arrive in country, |
If we're still at 140,000 troops in a year, I will be severely worried about the well-being of the all-volunteer force. |
If you don't work hard to find money with things that are not already in the budget, the implicit message is that, no matter what your rhetoric, you really are not awarding them a very high priority. |
In broad terms, Bush's effort to portray the military as hollow is basically wrong. |
In this case, we haven't even been that specific. So here we're actually doing a worse job of developing an exit strategy than we did in Vietnam. |
In this war, Saddam may very well use chemical weapons, because he knows he has nothing much to lose. We're coming after his head anyway. In the Gulf War, he chose not to use these because he was warned that, if he did, we would overthrow his regime. |
In Vietnam, we had a somewhat more clear goal about what victory would mean, |
It could really piss people off and make them more inclined to hold out. |
It is another indication that the predictions of high casualty levels that were mocked before the invasion have come to pass. The US numbers fluctuate, but they are still quite high. Iraqi security force casualties are higher than any time. The silver lining means the Iraqis are fighting [the insurgency] more, but the security trends don't show much reason for positive sentiment. |