Comments on: Rumsfeld Will Not Set Timetable for Iraq Withdrawal

By: mike kilo

mike kilo — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:38:03 +0000

25.

I’m not so sure…you see, we won world war II because the enemy was ruthless, and did not give a shit about civilian casualties….and neither did we.

Now we are at war with anohter ruthless enemy who not only dosen’t give a shit about civilian casualties, but they are the PRIMARY TARGET!

we need to not be so squeamish….this is a battle for civilization itself.. if islamofacism is not crushed, stamped out, obliterated, darkness will sweep across the entire globe.

By: mike kilo

mike kilo — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:19:39 +0000

If anything, the first gulf war represented an effort at protecting oil flow in the gulf, and not this one….though saddam certainly helped with his dunderheaded move of invading Kuwait.

By: Redfred

Redfred — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:19:19 +0000

23 to end the war of all wars. doesn’t mean we should nuke Somalia.

By: Redfred

Redfred — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:16:10 +0000

As far as I am conceded the exit strategy is working just fine. We are not exiting until things quieten down. We knew that this was a long haul operation , not a flash in the pan like last time, look to the original gulf war for an example of what an early exit strategy achieved.

By: mike kilo

mike kilo — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:13:41 +0000

21.

seemed to work with Japan.

By: Redfred

Redfred — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:12:56 +0000

20 – except that the battle of the bulge was an enemy initiated action and so bears no comparison what so ever… other than that you have a point:wink:

By: Redfred

Redfred — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:10:50 +0000

The “Nuke the bastards” war plan obviously does great things for the ego and machismo of the person claiming it as a soloution, but is seldom practical in the real world.

By: PCD

PCD — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:10:00 +0000

18, only in the current situation the analogy would be Chamberlain deriding Churchill for no exit stategy, etc. during the Battle of the Bulge.

By: PCD

PCD — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:07:57 +0000

16, problem was Aspin commited the mortal sin of committing to few and to underequipt forces. Sort of like sending in two British regulars into an IRA neighborhood armed with only a single Browning 9mm HiPower pistol. Neither man was familar with the pistol and it’s quirks. An IRA man grabed the gun away from them while they were being mobbed, corrected the fault, (Tap, Rack, Bang! for those aquainted with firearms.) and killed the regulars with a single shot to the head each.

By: Redfred

Redfred — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:07:53 +0000

Me too, but there are subtlties in war some situations require different tactics, second guessing those in charge is a futile game, just like those critisizing the current administration for the lack of an exit strategy or post war plan, War is an inexact science.