Good Question

We often hear criticism of our troops, from the press, Congress, Hollywood. In Congressional Hearings this week Defense Secretary Rumsfeld asked the question "What excuse do the terrorists give"?

"If they were called to account for the state of their strategy, consider what might have been asked of them," Rumsfeld said. He proposed several lines of questioning, including:

*Why did they fail to stop millions of Afghans and Iraqis from voting in free elections?

*Why had Iraqi Sunnis, natural allies of the insurgents, decided, "albeit belatedly, to energetically embrace the political process, registering (to vote) in large numbers?"

*Why had the terrorists failed to prevent nearly 200,000 Iraqis and 75,000 Afghans from joining their countries' security forces despite efforts to prevent them from doing so?

*And why had the vast majority of Afghans and Iraqis "rejected the terrorists' twisted ideology" to support efforts to build new societies?

I guess the critics would rather pose questions to those who won't blow them up for asking!