Posted on 05/03/2008 10:09:22 AM PDT by stan_sipple
Too bad you didn’t learn about “STFU, you stupid RINO”, ya hear that Hagel?
It’s time for Hagel to unwind from politics.
Spending copious quantities of hot air decrying the “crisis” while providing no solutions. And heaven forbid he even look at answering the question of “If I get what i want, Then What???”
Such is the genesis of the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Do the best you can, Bin Ladin don’t like a slacker. And he has NOT called off this war!!
Chuck Hagel: just one more example of why I quit giving money to the RNC. I do not trust party hacks to spend my donations, and only give to individual candidates.
It’s comments like that they caused his presidential bid to implode before it even started.
Chuck finally discovers an audience not too intellectually advanced or politically mature for him. The girls thought his asking for dates at lunchtime, "a bit creepy" though.
Yes it was, but understand he is by no means close to being unique. The first thing I look for in a candidate is has he identified the issues. THEN I look to see if they have solutions for those self identified problems.
I am a retired Naval Officer and have strong respect for our military. I part ways with the FR knee-jerk support of Bush and his neo-cons on the conduct of the Iraq war, however, over a very very fundamental issue.
The issue is not pro/anti- conservative or pro/anti- war on terror, but rather what is our strategy? What would victory look like if we were to achieve it? How will we achieve that victory? What resources are required? Is the national sacrifice worth the goal defined in the strategy?
As has been abundantly clear, the neo-cons invated Iraq with no goal or strategy beyond "kill Sadam." That strategy takes one bullet or one noose. What then? Well we never looked beyond the noses of Feith and Wolfowitz and Bremer and Cheney and answered the "what then?" We are, however, dealing with the multi-trillion dollar aftermath of "what then."
Realistic military strategy begins with Sun Tsu.
Go away Chuck. You bore me.
that is his problem right there, he keeps thinking this is viet nam all over and it's not! I'm so glad he is not running again!
Slouching towards irrelevancy.
Agreed
Maybe when all his sucking-up to Obama gets him a post in his administration the mid-stream media will start to ignore him.
What did General Douglas MacArthur mean when he quoted Napoleon: “give me allies as an enemy, so I may defeat them one by one?”
[What would victory look like if we were to achieve it? How will we achieve that victory? What resources are required? Is the national sacrifice worth the goal defined in the strategy?]
Good questions. If we examine all the wars in which the United States has engaged and we compare the ones with successful outcomes to the ones with unsuccessful outcomes, we see that in the successful ones we fought as hard as we could until the enemy was completely defeated. We made sure they were utterly beaten and all the fight had gone out of them. Only then did we extend the hand of friendship and try to rebuild. In contrast, our unsuccessful ventures in war have all been fought with reservation and even timidity, as if afraid that beating an enemy in battle will make them angry and will ruin any possible victory. It certainly describes Vietnam, and it looks very similar to what is happening in Iraq.
Gosh, at last my hero, Chuck Hagel, has given me my marching orders. I don’t even go to the bathroom to drop a “Hagel” unless I contact him first.
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