"I shall return," said Douglas MacArthur, forced to retreat from the Phillippines in March of 1942.

He returned in October, 1944. It was July of 1945 before the Phillippines were retaken.

We have been fighting this Afghanistan war for less than three goddam weeks, and the usual gangs of idiots are already screaming "quagmire!"

As I posted below, there is a full-bore anti-military push coming out of our own media. Another great example of this can be found here. Check out what was selected for the headline. Note the mention of civilians hit, and that ever-popular target, a Red Cross warehouse. The entire tone is, at best, one of failure, and at worst, one of deliberate atrocity on the part of the U.S.

Reading the "San Jose Mercury News" today (Oct. 26), I took note of the war-related stories. (Never mind the girlish screaming about anthrax, which occupies three full pages)

- Right on the front page fold, an 8 x 6 color picture of a weeping Afghan woman and a small child. The caption: "We are hungry," said Sabara, an Afghan refugee, above with her granddaughter, near Peshawar.

The article is titled "Invisible" refugees go uncounted, unaided. The article continues on the back page, with more large pictures of refugees.

Page 2A- Under "Today's Coverage:" U.S. Warplanes Pound Taliban Front Lines. After airstrikes using armor-penetrating cluster bombs for the first time, military officials sought to counter criticism that they were falling short of their goals.

Page 10A - Voice of America Steps Up PR FightAn article on the Voice of America discusses the programs impotence compared to the appeal of bin Laden to the Arabs.

Page 12A- Plan to Encourage Defections Failing U.S. and Pakistani intelligence agencies, hobbled by weak contacts and deep distrust, have failed to engineer any significant defections from the military ranks of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban...



Page 12B - Report: Bin Laden Has Nuclear Material

etc. etc.

And this was just today.