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Originally posted by reconmike
Arent the Generals and top ranking staff at the pentagon the ones Slick Willie promoted to their positions?
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Sure. And they're the reason the combat death tolls are as low as they are. The point is that the political goals are misguided, unclear, and inefficient. Our troops went into Iraq with no clear exit strategy and no concept of how to win the peace. Hence, they're easy targets for mudjaheddin-like guerrilla fighters and partisans. We're getting bled to death by degrees after the war has technically ended.
Actually, this invasion is eerily like the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1980. Winning the war was the easy part. Staying alive afterwards was the true test. Both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. invaded for less-than-legitimate reasons, experienced a relatively brief and relatively "easy" formal campaign, and then got stuck in a slow, steady quagmire of guerrilla attacks, bad PR, poor troop rotations and strategies, both on the ground and in exit terms.
Different decades, different military doctrines, same results.
Wow. 227 years of America, and what have we become? The Soviet Union. At least insofar as this comparison goes.
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I am almost completely satisfied with the job performance of my President.
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I'm almost positive this means that you're not over there. Funny, but the troops on the ground don't seem nearly as enamored of him as you...