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To reiterate my point, anyone here have any reason as to why the "surge" isn't a sound military strategy? Politics and whether we should be there or not are irrelevant if it's the guys on the ground that are asking for the extra manpower.
The two great lessons of the Vietnam War are that military matters are best left to chain of command and that if the chain of command doesn't have any idea how to win the war, everybody's fucked. We're still trying to maneuver around the first part, although I have to say it's looking more and more like part two is coming to pass.
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