[JLWORK]

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907E7D91E31F933A15755C0A9609C8B63

Here’s the link to the NY Times story, FWIW.

I think the salient point of my post here is that we have put our warriors into impossibly difficult circumstances, where the enemy does not wear a uniform, he kills our warriors, our soldiers catch and release him to come back and kill again. My nephew, U.S. Army Infantry, did three combat tours in Iraq, loaded fifty-three dead American comrades from his unit onto trucks for shipment back home for burial - during one tour.

This COIN strategy is doomed to failure, as it was in Viet Nam. Fight the war mercilessly to win it or get out.

Best,

JW

[Gunslingr3]

“I’m worried about an opponent who uses nation building and the military in the same sentence.”
-George W. Bush, Nov. 6, 2000