The Republicans have finally awakened to the fact that someday the troops are going to have to come home, and that if they intend to stay until the terrorists are all gone and the threat ended they had better import brides and start reproducing a new crop of privates.
I'm sure the Right will condemn all the traitors in the Senate who adopted this new measure. Some of them may even have a good reason for doing so , other than the fact that it contradicts the known wishes of George W. Deity.
Look.
Here's the scenerio.
Your mission is as follows. There is a nation of several hundred million people. 500 of them are terrorists. You must destroy the five hundred without greatly disturbing the lifestyles of the several hundred million others.
You may choose from the following force options:
a) A carrier task force and 3 armored divisions.
b) An impeccable intelligence agency and 10 SEAL teams.
c) A strategic nuclear arsenal.
The correct choice was (b). Too bad nobody chose it.
Now the US is stuck trying to crush cockroaches with a sledgehammer.
It's time to change. Time to lose the sledgehammer and bring out the bug traps.
This is not surrender. It is not retreat. It is strategy.
If only the loons could see this.
3 comments:
I followed you here from your excellent comment on Blogs For Bush. Will be returning. You make sense.
The Psychotic Patriot
The title of your site mixed with a Molly Ivins quote threw me for a deeply confused loop for a moment, then I read what you had to say.
Well said, brother. Too few people are discussing the folly of sending an entire army to do the job of stealth agents. (The same people who they should have sent after bin Laden, by the way.)
James:
We are still in those countries, not because of WWII, but because of the Cold War. We needed forward bases.
Today, well . . .
It does make sense to keep a few airbases and ports open. It also makes sense to keep alliances open with any foreign power that will have us.
It IS time for a new look at those bases, from a modern viewpoint.
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