Wow, thanks, man. That's the first thing I've read in a while that makes me feel a little more at ease about the impending quasi-revolution this crazy country seems to be facing this election cycle.

You're absolutely right, these fanatics are going to hit us again, unless we somehow miraculously stop them; but it may be what it takes to galvanize Westersn society to stand up against this wacky perversion we now know as radical islam.

Pattycake, pattycake, bakers man
Get me a government with balls, please.

Ok, it doesn't rhyme, but it's what I mean, anyway.

Pattycake, pattycake, Marines, AT EASE!
Get me a government with balls, please.

The pleasure is to serve.

If Kerry/Edwards are elected it will be encouraging. Encouraging for despots, dictators, and terrorists, that is. We have to face up to the fact that the Democrat Party has evolved to be the party of hate America, permanent victims, parasites, trial lawyers, and government unions. If they are elected, they, like Clinton, will once again treat terrorists like common criminals which will delight terrorists everywhere. I don't care if terrorists strike Democrats but unfortunately, many innocents will be killed in the process. It is coming soon.

"While most of America’s wars have been fought with volunteers, the two big ones that went the limit without conscription (the American Revolution and the Civil War), ran into manpower problems after the three year limit was hit."

Except the poster on Strategy Page is wrong - The Civil War featured conscription on both sides. The chronically manpower starved Confederacy implemented their draft laws first, IIRC.