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- TheBlueOne0
Blue, don't you think this thing should have more of an international face on it? Instead of just Americans?
mrdobolina
(Aug 21 06, 15:19)
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Of course. But at this point, who are we going to get to commit more forces at this point? Most of the coalition of the willing have left already.We broke it, we own it.
the options are : Get Out or Win the damn thing. The way to win it is not to "stay the course" and continue to destroy the US military in the process, it's to take the positive and negative lessons of Afghanistan and Iraq to date, and institute a draft - IF this whole terror war really is something that threatens our civilization as Bush contends, then we SHOULD and can win it. And you win wars by occupying territory. No war was ever won by not occupying territory. We don't have enough forces in Iraq to secure areas..they just run around putting out fires.
We proved i nAfghanistan how to incorporate tech with lighter ground forces. Now we need to take those lessons and apply i tto an urban environment in Iraq - and we need more people. period. If you can't commit to that, and you can't get the American people to see they need to sacrifice on that level to win, then get the fuck out of there.