Skinnywater
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Re: president tonight- thoughts?
What overwhelming force to me means, is enough to complete the entire mission and soundly thump our enemy.<br /><br />Overwhelming force to start the mission, then train foreign forces half way through to complete what we started is a new warfare tactic.<br />In fact, the mission appears to be that our hope is they finish the mission.<br />There's nothing wrong in soundly defeating the enemy and training a police force to restore civility. But training a police force to be fodder for our undefeated enemy is clearly a failed mission.<br />No wonder "it's tough", "isn't easy" and "will take time".<br /><br />In 10-20 years all the Generals currently involved in this will be writing books telling you exactly what some of us already suspect.<br /><br /> I'm with you Vlad, if you want to lose a war leave it to a politician. If you want to win a war leave it to the Pentagon.<br /><br /> PW brought up the "Powell doctrine" and largely a sensible post. There's definately more than one jug of "kool-aid" being chugged from.<br />While the Democrats swill causes sedicious reasoning, the Republican one surely causes denial and desperate hope.<br /><br />The only chance of winning this in the next 50 years (if ever)is if we have a Powell-Swartzkopf Presidency next go round. And I hope to god it's on an Independent ticket.
What overwhelming force to me means, is enough to complete the entire mission and soundly thump our enemy.<br /><br />Overwhelming force to start the mission, then train foreign forces half way through to complete what we started is a new warfare tactic.<br />In fact, the mission appears to be that our hope is they finish the mission.<br />There's nothing wrong in soundly defeating the enemy and training a police force to restore civility. But training a police force to be fodder for our undefeated enemy is clearly a failed mission.<br />No wonder "it's tough", "isn't easy" and "will take time".<br /><br />In 10-20 years all the Generals currently involved in this will be writing books telling you exactly what some of us already suspect.<br /><br /> I'm with you Vlad, if you want to lose a war leave it to a politician. If you want to win a war leave it to the Pentagon.<br /><br /> PW brought up the "Powell doctrine" and largely a sensible post. There's definately more than one jug of "kool-aid" being chugged from.<br />While the Democrats swill causes sedicious reasoning, the Republican one surely causes denial and desperate hope.<br /><br />The only chance of winning this in the next 50 years (if ever)is if we have a Powell-Swartzkopf Presidency next go round. And I hope to god it's on an Independent ticket.
