[MNJohnnie]

Stick to what you know. Pretty clear you have no qualification at all to comment on how Counter Insurgency ops are done.

Counter Insurgency is not Total War. It is as much Political as Military. Iraq is a done deal. The Terrorist were never able to get beyond state 1 Guerrilla warfare. Now thanks to the help of supposedly "Conservative" Talking heads who were more interested in sticking knives in Bush's back all the time, it is back almost to square one.

The Terrorist are counting on the Democrats to cut and run. Suddenly their failing effort is embolden. All they go to do is hang on and the Dems will save them.

The Buchannaite Know Nothings with their perpetual ranting about Iraq and arrogant refusal to learn ANYTHING about the issue are helping insure that will happen.

The Russians followed your dogmas in Afghanistan. How did that work out for them?

[Ed Hudgins]

You've obviously posted again to the wrong thread, going on about a topic not discussed here. And your post seems even less coherent and speculative than the last one. You seem, for example, to believe that you have some sort of knowledge about the qualifications of the person you're addressing that you clearly don't have.

Thus I would suggest, for your own sake, that you see a physician about the medication that I mentioned earlier that can help you manage your problem.

[ninenot]

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying.

Are you telling us that it's necessary to maintain 150K++men in arms in Iraq for counter-insurgency?

Isn't Iraq supposed to have its own Gummint and army? Didn't GWB "plant democracy" there?

Or how long, exactly, SHOULD we baby-sit Iraq's Gummint?

Until they have a Modern Industrial Economy? Several auto plants? Starbucks-on-every-corner?

Vote fraud?

What's your thought?

[griswold3]

You said it!!