Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Post election Bush needs to sit down with Rummy and the leaders of congress and develop a last ditch plan to solve this Iraq thing. Do what ever it takes for a year to make it work, if that means another 50-100k troops over there then do it.
If we still can't make it work then maybe we need to look at pulling back our troops off the streets and adopt a policy of disruption of terror cells. Just bomb them where ever we can find them.
BTW: saw something today about terror training camps in Somalia, I hope Bush learned Clinton's lesson and starts to bomb these sites before they amount to anything.
If Clinton had started bombing the terror camps in Afghanistan in 1998 after the Embassy bombing there is a chance 9-11 would have never happened because the terrorists would have been so off balance it would have been hard for any sort of long term planning.
So when are you suiting up in desert fatigues and going over to help "make it work"
ProfJohn?
"Just bomb them" terrorists aye? What about securing that ground then afterwards. Because it's all got to be secured. And that's done by American foot soldiers who have wives and kids and a real life back home.
This is a civil war meat grinder and anyhow it's not our business to play world cop. The worst place in the world to play that cop is right there Iraq, sandwiched in between 3 seperate factions of suicide jihadists who are each trying to annihilate each other and all Americans there.
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On another note. Rummy will stay where he is because he's needed to hold the corrupt Bush Junta's power structure intact.
Sensible leaders would recognize our forces are being worn down at this stage. Everything is backed up in the repair shops. Tanks, trucks jeeps planes etc. The stuff is running is gritty sand and busting down. The men are fatigued after multiple forced tours of duty.
All America needs now is a real serious attack from Russia and China and we're screwed with our pants down around our ankles. Due to fools chasing oil.