Practice what you preach.The Washington Post's Peter Carlson has a great idea for the neocons who got us into the Iraq war Iraq War: see under Persian Gulf Wars. Iraq War or Second Persian Gulf War Brief conflict in 2003 between Iraq and a combined force of troops largely from the U.S. and Great Britain; and a subsequent U.S. and continue to exhort our forces to keep fighting and not 'cut and run.' Carlson's advice: Follow the example of Theodore Roosevelt who, having advocated the Spanish-American War Spanish-American War, 1898, brief conflict between Spain and the United States arising out of Spanish policies in Cuba. It was, to a large degree, brought about by the efforts of U.S. expansionists. , forsook his comfortable civilian life to join in the fight, organizing a regiment called the Rough Riders Rough Riders, popular name for the 1st Regiment of U.S. Cavalry Volunteers, organized largely by Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War (1898). Its members were mostly ranchers and cowboys from the West, with a sprinkling of adventurous blue bloods from the . Carlson suggests the neocons call themselves the Tough Talkers. |
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