Obama: U.S. 'will never falter' in pursuit of al-Qaida

Saturday 12th September, 07:28 AM JST

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smithinjapan at 02:58 PM JST - 12th September

skip: "We will falter as we have been faltering because we are too busy spending time trying to finding excuses as to why they did this. We'll never win any war by kissing up."

Clearly your emotional, as exemplified by the post following the one I quote. That's fine... you should be -- it was a horrible event and unprecedented in terms of destruction and loss of life in terrorism. However, you should not let the anger and sadness bar objectivity and sound reason. Finding out WHY this happened and 'kissing a$$' are not at all the same thing, and while the latter is merely what I think is your subjective judgement on what is clearly improving relations, the former is necessary if you don't want a repeat of what happened. Simply going out and "kicking a$$!", as someone might want when their blood is boiling. Simply rushing in and killing everyone for the actions of a few (because you're angry) isn't really much different than 9/11. Sorry, but it's true.
smithinjapan at 03:03 PM JST - 12th September

seijichuu: "Like what?"

Like everything else that's being legislated, and including more focus on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Boy that was a stupid question.

"You try to make yourself sound so expert.But look what happened to your kooky rightwing Komeito heroes (I capitalize the name only because their party is so obscure many here wouldn't otherwise know what I refer to ha ha ha) in the recent election."

Dude, does your comment have ANYTHING to do with the thread? Go ahead and troll all you want, I couldn't care less what you think of the Komeito. Do try to keep the inane rantings to Komeito-related (or at least Japanese politics) threads, though.

"It is going to be an ordeal.I am worried about inter-party strife.House Democrats were asked to fall on their swords for cap and trade.I think many of them want the Senate Democrats to step up on health care."

Ah.. so this little tid-bit at the end was added to be 'on-topic', I see. Well, the 'inner-strife' you worry about is already alive and well, hence all the Republican whining about the bill, and outbursts by others during presidential speeches (not infighting, but I'm getting to that). Said outburst has members of the Republican party infighting -- if only against the man -- and Dems are of course disagreeing on elements of the health care bill. I'm sure they'll step up and pass the bill within the year.
techall at 03:04 PM JST - 12th September

@Skip: Terrorists did find other international targets. For example the Madrid twin train bombings and the London Tube bombings. Neither has a direct Al Qaida connection but were both inspired by 9/11. You are right, it's not the "war on al qaida", it's "the war on terror" but Al Qaida is the biggest fish.
seijichuudo9sha at 03:22 PM JST - 12th September

Methinks we'd be much further along in the fight against Al Qaeda if Homeland Security boss Jan Napolitano hadn't antagonized our allies.Blaming Canada for allowing many of the 19 terrorists into North America didn't help things.I swear sometimes she was like a rove plant or something.
Farmboy at 03:33 PM JST - 12th September

Al-Qaeda is still a threat, and very little has been done to weaken it, and Bin Laden is in more danger from kidney problems than from soldiers. If we focus on one narrow goal of getting rid of Al Qaeda, using all available options, and getting support throughout the world, they can be neutralized. More than faltering, the US and other countries have barely addressed the threat.
skipthesong at 04:06 PM JST - 12th September

Simply going out and "kicking a$$!", as someone might want when their blood is boiling. Simply rushing in and killing everyone for the actions of a few (because you're angry) isn't really much different than 9/11. Sorry, but it's true." Well, it worked before, didn't it? Look, all groups of people have had to do something like that to basically secure their live. Be they mafias, gangs, armies, what not. that was the way it was done to the Nazis, the Japanese, the KKK. Never going soft. the soft approach doesn't seem to work, and that is sad to say but the truth.
Beelzebub at 05:42 PM JST - 12th September

As far as I'm concerned, Bin Laden has won. While Americans were hooting, waving their flags and congratulating themselves on "mission accomplished," through very little effort on his part, he's succeeded in bankrupting the US economy.
Molenir at 06:26 PM JST - 12th September

Then Barack Obama is held to levels that republicans never held President george bush. < :-)

But then Bush didn't go around releasing sensitive information that could get people killed. And he didn't try to prosecute individuals whose crime was trying to save American lives. Oddly enough, Obama is guilty of both. Higher standard? No, definitely not.
bobbafett at 08:20 PM JST - 12th September

“will never falter”

The U.S already faltered, and all ready fell, and is staring deep into the abyss and has put a band aide over its wounds hoping to hide them but they will fester and puss and spew their infection all over the world again. Thats what you get for borrowing like a maniac and lending like a fool to pay for a wars that need not be fought.
bushlover at 11:25 PM JST - 12th September

[Aside from some pretty poor cherry picking from the thread, are you saying that taking the time to help paint walls at Habitat for Humanity is a bad thing?] --- Oh please Mr.Smith if you can't see what this was an illustration of then you must be really blind. Can't get you head around parallel yet can ya? Obama should be criticized because we really don't know why he has all these FLIP FLOPS promising the liberal crowd that all will change but here in the story we find that well really he just wants to tow the line on it all and let the liberal crowd like yourself to still be able to blame it all on Repubs for leaving him in the heat of it all. Well he's dealing with it just like any Repub would do. You'll see no change in the war on Terror/Radical Islam or whatever people want to call it. And is Gitmo gone now? It's been a while since I checked.
adaydream at 12:44 AM JST - 13th September

Molenir

But then Bush didn't go around releasing sensitive information that could get people killed.

And that information is?

You fail to remember that george bush released plenty of information that got 100,000s killed. he released lies. he fabricated lies. he sent Colin Powell to the UN to shpw photoshop pictures of false information.

Information that george bush released got lots of people. Not might get people killed, but actual bodybags filled. < :-)
MeanRingo at 05:19 AM JST - 13th September

At least the man is working. I think at this point in Bush's presidency he was just a couple days off his second or third vacation. Anyone know how many days Obama has taken off?
Molenir at 08:11 AM JST - 14th September

Honestly, I wish the man would take more vacations. The country would be better off.
zurcronium at 08:28 AM JST - 14th September

But then Bush didn't go around releasing sensitive information that could get people killed.

Hey, didnt bush and cheney out a CIA agent a while ago. How many lives did that cost?

How many Americans have died based on the fake invasion of Iraq? How many Iraqi's?
Molenir at 03:20 PM JST - 14th September

Hey, didnt bush and cheney out a CIA agent a while ago. How many lives did that cost?

Not a single one. Surprisingly, she was in the phone book and both she and her husband bragged to their friends about her being a CIA agent. Thus, she was not undercover.

How many Americans have died based on the fake invasion of Iraq? How many Iraqi's?

Fake? Really? If that was fake, I'd like to see what you would consider to be a real invasion.