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Originally posted by Yorick:
Our response involves far more than instant retaliation and isolated strikes.■■Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen.■■It may include dramatic strikes, visible on TV, and covert operations, secret even in success.■■We will starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from place to place, until there is no refuge or no rest.■■And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism.■■Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists............ the only way to defeat terrorism as a threat to our way of life is to stop it, eliminate it, and destroy it where it grows.■
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Frankly it puzzles me how you view this as Bush showing restraint in purpose.
I read it to mean that he intends to go all out on this crusade, and will certainly use the military as one of MANY means in the war.
Oh yes, we will have "dramatic strikes, visible on TV"!