Murdoc, that entire area is not controllable except in a very limited way by a combination of carrot and stick, as the British discovered, which is why we combined punitive expeditions (to give hostiles a choice of continuing raiding or rebuilding before winter) and subventions, hopefully going more to my enemy’s enemy than my enemy – which was which was always a moveable feast. The Durand Line was drawn where it was to help split up the groups, deliberately.

The Pakistani government – this or any – has no other cards in its hand. Blaming Pakistanis in general, let alone the government, IS blaming the victim. There is no “harbouring”, the people concerned were there all along and nobody ever managed to winkle them out – there’s been no lack of will.

As for “equivalency stupidity”, you made that up. There are bad guys in the hills doing one sort of bad stuff – and US forces are doing a different sort. Their rights go as far as things like hot pursuit, but this isn’t that. This is the same as though US forces had invaded and/or supported invading Iraq through Turkey even though the Turks had said no. Morally, diplomatically, strategically and tactically, “it was worse than a crime, it was a mistake”.

If you harbor, help, assist, feed, clothe, fund, and sleep with the terrorists, you’re eventually going to get bombed.

That’s the cue to whine about how unfair things are. And, obviously, some people will buy it.

One thing’s for sure: She obviously scares Democrats and the media totally shitless.

REAGAN: ended fairness doctrine, allowing free speech on the airwaves for the forst time since the FCC was created.

MCCAIN: McCain-Feingold, which is the worst assault on the First Amendment ever seen. (”Political speech isn’t covered by the First Amendment, and may be regulated…”)

List goes on ad nauseum. McCain was Reagan 2.0 like a Trabant was a Improved Porsche.

Murdoc, you’ve already seen the Next Reagan. She wears a skirt.

It can’t do anything about either lot of bad guys. Isn’t this blaming the victim?

If the republican party hadn’t gone stupid in da head these past eight years, I would have voted for im.

Now I am worried the vast Democrat Party will go stupid in the head for the next 8 years now that they are largely in control.

Complete unchecked Power has a way of making good people stupid.

You are not mistaken that we could easily be sitting on a great conservative right now and not know it. In fact, I’m SURE you are right? Why am I so sure?

Because I have no doubt that there are at least a few great conservatives around. I also have no doubt that we don’t know it.

We had better find them.