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Gates's warning: Avoid land war in Asia, Middle East, and Africa
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| 26 February 2011
| Brad Knickerbocker
Posted on 02/28/2011 6:45:35 AM PST by Racehorse
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To: edpc
When you dont fight a war to win it, the outcomes are fairly predictable. We havent done that since 1945.
I was just thinking the same. Add in the military being stiffled by PC [re: Fort Hood assassin].
Advanced weaponry doesn't do much good if the military are prohibited from using it to win wars.
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posted on
02/28/2011 7:09:20 AM PST
by
TomGuy
To: Racehorse
What a strategic thinker he’s turning out to be!
To: Red Badger
That leaves just Europe and South America..................
No, it leaves North America. Mexico is about to collapse and the states bordering it will be overrun with refugees and guerrilla fighters. The US will be fighting a full scale Vietnam style insurgency on our own southern border. And since Obama will do nothing, the next president is going to need every single soldier to try and take back lost US territory from the narco gangs.
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posted on
02/28/2011 7:17:59 AM PST
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: spokeshave
The North American Union is on its way. Coming soon to a state government near you!..........
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posted on
02/28/2011 7:18:52 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name. Want to have fun? Google your friend's names.....)
To: Red Badger
Gates's warning: Avoid land war in Asia, Middle East, and Africa> That leaves just Europe and South America..................
You forgot that Eastern Europe and Venezuela are also off limits. We can't even take on Russia's/the "Former" Soviet military's conventional threat anymore without resorting to nukes.
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posted on
02/28/2011 7:20:41 AM PST
by
Thunder90
(Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
To: Racehorse
Bobby Gates has always been bad.
Which explains why the last two loser Presidents have had him as SecDef
To: Racehorse
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posted on
02/28/2011 7:23:56 AM PST
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
To: ZULU
Instead of saying we should avoid a war, he should have said we should avoid PROLONGED POLICE ACTIONS in countries where our presence is not appreciated or wanted.
Bullseye! Right on the money, Zulu.
You go in. Kick their ass for bothering you. Then you leave with a threat to do it again if they bother you again.
What's hard about that?
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posted on
02/28/2011 7:41:31 AM PST
by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain & proud of it: Truly Supporting the Troops means praying for their Victory!)
To: Racehorse
Which is just a backhanded way of calling his predecessor a lunatic. Such a class act!
To: justlurking
“MacArthur told Kennedy both times to stay out of a land war on mainland Asia.”
McNamara 3.0
To: Racehorse
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posted on
02/28/2011 7:55:46 AM PST
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
To: Racehorse
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posted on
02/28/2011 7:56:14 AM PST
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
To: Racehorse; All
There has been an overwhelming tendency of our defense bureaucracy to focus on preparing for future high-end conflicts priorities often based, ironically, on what transpired in the last century as opposed to the messy fights in Iraq and Afghanistan,
For good reason. The military is best used in a conventional fashion, and the “high-end conflicts” are the ones that actually threaten our existence the most. China, the Russian Federation, et. Al. The enemies have NOT gone away and we have become so focused on “insurgents” we can no longer effectively fight a major conflict.
BTW - Iraq and Afghanistan would still be “messy”, but they would and could go smoother IF we stopped using such anemic Rules of Engagement (ROEs). IF we don’t have good reason to kill people and break things, then we don’t have good reason to send in the military. IMO it is either “total” war or no war.
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posted on
02/28/2011 8:00:59 AM PST
by
Sola Veritas
(Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
To: Racehorse
You can't win a war by letting lawyers write your rules of engagement while your army is occupied building sewerage plants and mosques for your enemy.
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posted on
02/28/2011 8:11:05 AM PST
by
Iron Munro
("Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy." -- Ron Paul)
To: GonzoGOP
the next president is going to need every single soldier to try and take back lost US territory from the narco gangs. Then there is only ONE CHOICE to accomplish that mission.
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posted on
02/28/2011 8:30:12 AM PST
by
Just A Nobody
( (Better Dead than RED! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA))
To: ProtectOurFreedom
That leaves just Europe and South America...
You forgot North America, ie, Obama's war on the United States.
And Antarctica. Don't forget Antarctica.
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posted on
02/28/2011 8:37:37 AM PST
by
crosshairs
(Appeasement is surrender in slow motion.)
To: Racehorse
Any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should 'have his head examined,' as General [Douglas] MacArthur so delicately put it. Yep, makes perfect sense. We should send troops only to where the most dangerous enemies are: Grenada and Panama.
That'll keep us perfectly safe.
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posted on
02/28/2011 8:38:24 AM PST
by
TopQuark
To: Racehorse
based, ironically, on what transpired in the last century as opposed to the messy fights in Iraq and Afghanistan, he said. How are they less messy than the wars in Korea or Vietnam? If anything, they are easier to fight: there is no Soviet Union to worry about, and Russia even gives us overflight rights.
Why can't this moron just keep silence --- does he not he understand that such remarks embolden the enemy? When the Secretary of Defense tells the world we won't fight, what do you expect the enemies will do --- put down the guns and sip coffee?
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posted on
02/28/2011 8:43:24 AM PST
by
TopQuark
To: LowTaxesEqualsProsperity
Was Reagan a loser when he nominated Gates as CIA Director?
How many administrations has he worked for?
Nixon-Ford-Carter-Reagan-Bush-Bush-Obama
To: Racehorse
There has been an overwhelming tendency of our defense bureaucracy to focus on preparing for future high-end conflicts priorities often based, ironically, on what transpired in the last century as opposed to the messy fights in Iraq and Afghanistan, he said.Dateline: Washington, D.C., February 28, 1932.
The outgoing Secretary of War told the press today:
There has been an overwhelming tendency of our defense bureaucracy to focus on preparing for future high-end conflicts priorities often based, ironically, on what transpired 15 years ago in World War One as opposed to the messy fights in Nicaragua and other Latin American countries that we are involved in right now.
Dateline: San Francisco, December 8, 1941.
To believe that China will never pose a threat to the U.S. during the rest of the 21st Century because "the Cold War is over" is naive and dangerous to the extreme.
Japan was on the Allied side in World War One. Japanese warships, based out of the British Royal Navy base at Malta, even assisted the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean. Yet, when Japan's growing thirst for oil came into conflict with Western interests, Japan turned from "friend" to "enemy" in a very short period of time.
If you are unprepared for insurgent warfare in Iraq or Afghanistan, you lose a few thousand troops.
If you are unprepared for war war against China in the year 2039, you lose hundreds of thousands of troops and the United States of America.
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posted on
02/28/2011 9:43:52 AM PST
by
Polybius
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