[LegendHasIt]

We could do the job with HALF the current Combat Troops if the politicians, the media and the clueless handwringers would just get out of the way.

[flynmudd]

I'm with you on that. I wish the MSM would just shut the hell up. Let the boots on the ground, not the white collars in glass buildings, decide what is to be done. Let's not have a repeat of Vietnam where decisions were made from the oval office instead of from the pentagon.

[Steel Wolf]

We could do the job with HALF the current Combat Troops if the politicians, the media and the clueless handwringers would just get out of the way.

And if my grandmother had wheels she'd be a wagon. The media's not going anywhere. They have to be factored in to any modern conflict, as much as the weather, ammo, fuel, and spare parts.