About That Exit Strategy

Sen. John Forbes Kerry seems to have his testicle(s) in a knot over how, in his opinion, President Bush has no exit strategy or "Plan to Win the Peace".

Now, I know I can't be the first to think of this, or even to articulate this, but I seem to remember a couple of wars in the dim, dark, distant past ...

I believe it was Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) that got us involved in World War II. That war ended over 59 years ago, yet we still have troops occupying Germany, Japan, Italy and various other parts of Europe and Asia.

President Harry S. Truman (D) got us into that damned quagmire of Korea. Over 50 years later we still have men and women of the military stationed there in harm's way.

As recently as this summer, the President and the Secretary of Defense once again broached the subject of bringing all - or most - of these troops home or repositioning them when they can be of more use in today's global picture. When a precis of this was put forward by the SecDef, Walter Reed Army Hospital and Bethesda Naval Hospital (both in the Washington D.C. area) had to 'clear the decks' waiting for all the Democratic Senators and Representatives to have a stroke.

Take away our troops from WHERE? But ... But they've Always been there! Close Fort Ord or Fort Sheridan or something else!

Take troops from Germany? But they're our friends!

I know that I've said this more than once, but let my try again - this time using words of one syllable:

when you have a plan to rip the bad guy's balls off, or when you have a
plan to let the boys and girls come home, you do not tell the bad guys

Okay? Seems simple enough to me. And for all those of you who think that we'd be just safe as can be if John Kerry broadcasts HIS plan (?) all over our TV sets, well, just two words: Peter. Arnett.