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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
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.
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You can start by asking that same question to the Generals and Admirals that have voiced their concerns about our current and possible future plans in Iraq. As was pointed out earlier, without a draft we won't have the manpower to control Iraq. We'd need somewhere in the neighborhood of 800,000 troops. That's not going to happen becuase 1) enlistment is down and 2) the draft would die on the floor of the Senate. The "guys on the ground" serving their third tour in a row probably would rather go home than stay in a country that doesn't want us there fighting a war we started. We can't help there, so we have to start making sure that they're able to help themselves. Our exodus is taking waaay too long (we should have been out by mid 2005 according to many militarty analysts), and things are going from bad to worse. A few thousand more troops are not going to turn the tide. It's a waste of lives.