WAR ON TERROR:    

    In a nutshell, "WE WIN, THEY LOSE!"  

   I am concerned that we are fighting a politically correct war wherein we are far too concerned with "collateral damage" (i.e. civilian casualties) than we are with the safety of our own troops.  Our enemy does not wear a uniform and hides behind women and children and fights out of religious mosques.  We should not risk the life of even one of our soldiers taking unnecessary risks to safeguard the lives of civilians. 

War is indeed hell. 

   We need to fight the war minimizing our casualties and maximizing their casualties.  To fight the war on terror, we need to make the enemy more afraid of us than we are of them.  As President Reagan famously said, "I have never known a country that was attacked because it was too strong."  

    We should have the intelligence capability to know the whereabouts of our enemy's leaders and "take them out" as quickly and as efficiently as possible.   

   Our intelligence capability was dramatically downgraded during the Clinton administration and is now under direct attack by the Obama administration.  We are also fighting the war on terrorism like it's some kind of criminal problem rather than the war it is.  Either fight the war properly or not fight the war at all.   We should NEVER give terrorists the rights of American citizens and they should all be tried by military tribunal at Guantanamo.