Posted on 06/20/2006 4:16:19 AM PDT by prairiebreeze
Your tagline.....inside info?
Wishful thinking.
I'm not near high enough on the foodchain to have good intel like that. ;-)
I guess, I'm wondering this:
Would a search have been necessary if our troops manning checkpoints were allowed to act more quickly? Perhaps the first soldier, at the checkpoint, would still be alive or, perhaps, the original perps would have been killed on the spot.
Perhaps the insurgents, who prefer soft target, never would have attacked in the first place, if they knew they had little chance of succeeding.
I can only speculate, as you are. However I can unequivocally state with full conviction that if we weren't worried about fighting a politically correct war (oxymoron) and if the Euroweenies and DemonRATS would STFU, we'd probably have the job done by now.
McQ has a pair of must-read posts: a detailed analysis of the Department of Defense latest report to Congress on progress in Iraq and a post on the lessons of this terrible episode:
This will be the lesson of the day from every commander out there. When you have a group that small, you never split them. You either all go, or you all stay. There's another lesson, an unofficial one, which will be passed among the troops themselves. Never surrender. They'll just kill you anyway. It's better to go down fighting.
The blogger refers to the cause of what happened as "a basic tactical error".
I am unfamiliar with this blog, and am offering it only in follow up to our discussion.
Thanks, prairiebreeze. I appreciate it.
If he wants to claim responsibility, so be it.
He'll get his, mark my words. Our troops are going to be even more energized by this. Like we are.
Our media is another story.
Yes- he will get his- one way or another.
I wonder sometimes what thoughts pass through the minds of the media and liberals who exploit and manipulate this war to their ends..they are incomprehensible.
This is what happens when you try to fight a "Politically Correct" war...
Release the "Pendleton 8!"
Semper Fi,
Kelly
Yet one more time, I have to believe that Reagan would have said political correctness be damned, let's end this thing. However, with Reagan, it probably would have been over on 9/12/01 a la Truman style.
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