Fighting them over there is the best idea. However in talking with members of the national guard here, the surge in Iraq should have happened 2 years before it did. Noone in the military liked Rumsfield, he wanted to do things with the least amount of troops. If he had listened to the men on the ground, Iraq would already have wound down. The dems would not have taken congress in 2006 and Afganistan would be winding down now. The situation in Afganistan can't be solved unless Pakistan helps clean out their northern mountains alongside of us in Afganistan. Otherwise this could go on for years. Dems also speak with a forked tongue. Obama hasn't been in office a month and has already broken many promises. Dow is going to 5500 by summer. Unemployment will be 10% by fall. Welfare reform of 1996 is out, now able bodied people can stay on it forever. Government is spending 40% of our economy and aren't producing anything. We need capital gains tax cuts for stock investments so companies can grow, hire, and expand. We need corporate tax cuts so companies will stay home instead of going overseas (we have the highest in the world). Our economy isn't going to grow from the ground up, but from the top down. Poor can't hire people to work, but rich can with tax cuts. European banks are about to fail like ours, this will bring us down further. If the stock market doesn't go up, nothing will come up. Stocks are pieces of the company that individuals own. Stocks are money borrowed by selling a piece of the company to expand and grow. There are a lot of people and investment companies just sitting on the sidelines waiting to invest. Unless there is a tax cut, no investment, no growth. Believe me I know, my wife is a stock trader.