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Originally Posted by aceventura3
To me there is a big difference between saying a plan did not work compared to saying there was no plan. To believe there was no plan suggests you have to believe some very extreme things to be true in order to support that view.
Some seem to suggest, based on the fact that there was no plan, that the positive results in Iraq were simply a matter of chance. I guess that means if we sent 200,000 chimps to Iraq, they could have possibly gotten the same results as our military since they were sent there with no plan.
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Nonsense. The positive results we've seen (and frankly, you're pointing to the needle in the haystack) are the result of determined, intelligent, and hard-working men and women doing the best they can given the environment they're forced to work in. But there's a huge difference between in-the-field ad-hockery and a planned out, thought out occupation strategy. As in: one works, and the other almost sort of halfway works while costing a vast number of unnecessarily lost lives.