We'd OWN the middle east today, if we wanted to.

The bleeding heart "oh god there are a billion muslims out there" liberals, talk to me again about how the well-prepared Iraq defences stood up against us in 1991.

We don't *want* to install a MacArthur military governor over Iraq (though I guess we'll have to.) We don't (or shouldn't) want to support Saudi Arabia. And so forth.

If the Muslim world wants a fight, they awaken the sleeping giant at their peril. We (despite our system) are better educated, better prepared, better able to handle anything they can or will ever be able to throw at us.

As Bush said, though he's waffled hither and yon and back again, they are with us, or against us. Pity the country that slaps us enough to wake us up.